Thread by @_VFK_DAA

1) 2020 JAMA Cardiology study (Puntmann et al.) revealed the devastating cardiac toll of COVID. On advanced MRI, a staggering 78% of recovered patients had heart abnormalities & 60% had ongoing inflammation, regardless of initial severity.

https://twitter.com/AldonSnow48246/status/1970489828434419836

2) Dr. Puntmann's upcoming "myoflame" study is set to reveal further devastating insights into post-COVID heart damage, focusing on microvascular dysfunction, fibrosis, & resulting diastolic dysfunction, pathologies often invisible to standard diagnostics.

https://x.com/_VFK_DAA/status/1969531322889535921

3) The danger of LongCovid persists silently. A J. of Nuclear Medicine study found devastating heart & lung inflammation up to a year post-infection, critically, this was found even when patients' standard medical tests returned completely normal results.
mountsinai.org/about/newsroom…

4) (2025) This hidden inflammation was only uncovered using advanced PET/MRI imaging. A shocking 57% of patients showed inflammatory damage to the heart muscle, pericardium (the sac around the heart), valves, and major blood vessels like the aorta.

5) Further proof (2025): 58% of LC patients with cardiac symptoms had abnormal Cardiac MR scans, with 43% showing signs of tissue damage (LGE). Relying on standard tests is not enough. Advanced imaging is crucial to unmask this devastating chronic risk.

mdpi.com/2075-4418/15/1…

6) (2021) The COVERSCAN study (Dennis et al.) provides alarming data: Even in "low-risk" individuals w/ persistent symptoms, 70% show signs of organ impairment 4 months post-infection. 29% have multi-organ damage.

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/11/3/e…

7) (2023) The damage is often persistent. A 1-year follow-up study in Open Heart (Roca-Fernandez et al.) shows: Of Long COVID patients with initial cardiac MRI abnormalities, a staggering 58% still had abnormal findings at 12 months.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36822818/

8) The insidious part: Standard blood tests often fail. The Roca-Fernandez et al. study found 101 patients with NORMAL cardiac blood work (Troponin etc.) who still had pathological findings on heart MRI. This damage frequently goes undetected.

9) Once again confirmed: Standard blood tests are failing. The IMPRESSION study (Puntmann et al.) is clear: Although 73% of participants with mild COVID reported cardiac symptoms and had inflammatory changes on MRI, significantly elevated troponin levels were rare.

10) This confirms the damage from Long COVID often occurs without classic warning signs in the blood.
A frequently overlooked diagnosis is acute pericarditis (inflammation of the heart sac).

11) A study in the Int. Journal of Cardiology (Dini et al.) found this in 22% of the Long COVID patients they studied. It was often associated with palpitations and a history of autoimmune disorders.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

12) We made a fundamental mistake framing LongCovid as a single syndrome. While many focused on MECFS, a silent pathology took hold. This isn't just about lingering symptoms; it's measurable organ injury,from myocarditis to pericarditis,that standard blood tests consistently miss

13) This isn't a prediction; it's a diagnosis of what's to come. The widespread, often-silent damage to hearts, vessels, and other organs is seeding a tsunami of chronic illness, from heart failure and pericarditis to autoimmune disorders. We must prepare for this now.

14) The heart was the warning shot. Its hidden damage, invisible to routine tests, foreshadows a systemic crisis affecting all organs. But the true scale of this problem remains unknown until we confront the elephant in the room: SilentLongCovid in those with no symptoms at all.

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