Those who have had COVID-19 in the past experience lingering heart ailments during their recovery. Symptoms like dizziness, chest pain, heart palpitations and shortness of breath may be common in long haulers.

According to Dr T.S. Kler, Chairman, Fortis Heart & Vascular Institute, Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram, COVID-19 results in clot-formation in the heart vein which results in sudden heart attack. However, he said it can be dealt with only with timely treatment.

He says, “After getting infected with the coronavirus, patients suffered from several heart ailments even after two-three months. After the second wave of the Covid, I have observed that every day one or two young age patients are suffering from heart ailments.”

“Those who have developed chest pain after recovery from Covid or those who have already suffered from heart problems and have got infected with Covid-19 should go for cardiac tests to know their condition of the heart,” he adds further.

Dr. Kler has recently performed a complex surgery on a 17-year-old girl from Sikkim and saved her life at Fortis, Gurugram, wherein she was suffering from a rare kind of arrhythmia, called Junctional Tachycardia, which is very uncommon in youngsters at her age.