Coronavirus symptoms similar to heart attacks in patients, say doctors

Should every coronavirus patient be tested for high blood levels of troponin to see if the virus has attacked the heart?

The 64-year-old patient arrived at a hospital in Brooklyn with symptoms looking like those seen in patients having a serious heart attack.
 

An electrocardiogram revealed an ominous heart rhythm. The patient had high blood levels of a protein called troponin, a sign of damaged heart muscle. Doctors rushed to open the patient’s blocked arteries — but found that no arteries were blocked.

The patient was not having a heart attack. The culprit was the coronavirus.
 

The Brooklyn patient recovered after 12 days in the hospital and is now at home. But there have been reports of similar patients in the United