Affected by Covid-19, comedian Gad Elmaleh revealed that he had also suffered from a “lung condition” and “pericarditis”, a cardiac complication.
- As in the case of Gad Elmaleh, data relayed by Chinese and Italian doctors show that apart from the lungs, patients with Covid-19 develop sometimes severe heart problems.
Covid-19 is a respiratory disease, but it can have cardiac consequences, as comedian Gad Elmaleh testified on the show seven to eight on TF1. “I returned to Saint-Antoine Hospital on March 5. In a state… It’s really tired, sleeping 10 hours in a row in the middle of the day, not understanding where I was when I woke up, no longer having an appetite, having very, very strong pains everywhere, rising fevers that made me dizzy… It was really trying. It’s the flu multiplied by ten, twenty”, he said.
“I took 3-4 months to get back in shape”
Gad Elmaleh also revealed that he suffered from a “lung disease” and one “pericarditis”, a cardiac complication. “I was unable to climb stairs without being out of breath. (…) It took me 3-4 months to get back in shape, play sports, be completely… like before what”, he added, before assuring that he will be vaccinated against Covid-19. “I want to protect myself, I want my loved ones and myself to protect ourselves. First I will send my parents as soon as possible, and then I will go. (…) We wanted this vaccine, that’s the only thing that can get us out of there”, he said.
Acute myocarditis, acute coronary syndrome (ACS) or arrhythmias
As in the case of Gad Elmaleh, data relayed by Chinese and Italian doctors show that apart from the lungs, Covid-19 patients develop sometimes severe heart problems, in the form of acute myocarditis, coronary syndrome acute (SCA) or even arrhythmias, “resulting in the most affected by heart failure, a state of shock or cardiac arrest”, according to the Faculty of Medicine of the Catholic University of Louvain.
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