Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Cardiovascular Complications: Implications for Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

CORONAVIRUSES, so named for the crownlike spikes on their surfaces under electron microscopy, are enveloped, single-stranded positive-sense RNA viruses that have high propensity for mutation and recombination.1Cheng VC Lau SK Woo PC et al.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus as an agent of emerging and reemerging infection.Clin Microbiol Rev. 2007; 20: 660-694Crossref PubMed Scopus (795) Google Scholar Severe acute respiratory syndrome...