Tomidokoro Daiki, Hiroi Yukio
Department of Cardiology, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Glob Health Med. 2022 Apr 30;4(2):101-107. doi: 10.35772/ghm.2022.01006.
The COVID-19 pandemic is continuing to have drastic consequences for patients, healthcare workers, and the health system. Its cardiovascular implications have been well described in previous studies, but original reports from Japan are sparse. Validating overseas findings in the Japanese clinical settings is crucial to improve local COVID-19 care and to clarify the pandemic's impacts in the country. This review of available literature demonstrates that in Japanese patients and clinical settings too, there is a close relationship between COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system including cardiovascular complications. On the contrary, secondary effects on cardiovascular practice including service disruptions, telemedicine, and epidemiological changes in Japan have been relatively small.
新冠疫情继续对患者、医护人员和卫生系统造成严重后果。此前的研究已对其心血管影响进行了充分描述，但来自日本的原始报告却很稀少。在日本临床环境中验证海外研究结果对于改善当地新冠疫情护理以及阐明疫情在该国的影响至关重要。对现有文献的综述表明，在日本患者和临床环境中，新冠病毒与心血管系统（包括心血管并发症）之间也存在密切关系。相反，新冠疫情对日本心血管医疗实践的次要影响，包括服务中断、远程医疗和流行病学变化，相对较小。
