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The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as a serious global threat causing a large number of fatalities and
putting enormous strain on the health care resources across the world. This has resulted in preferentially triaging the
coronavirus infected patients and placing others, especially cardiovascular patients at increased risk for adverse
complications. The effective management of cardiac patients in the hospital environment during this COVID-19 pandemic
has emerged as a real challenge. We try to address this issue and also highlight the interplay between COVID-19 and
cardiovascular diseases. We hereby review the available literature and emerging guidelines about cardiovascular
implications related to COVID-19 which will have a bearing on the patient care, health care professionals and cardiac
centres.
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