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My 49-Year-Old Husband Has Covid- Related Heart Failure and Needs an ICD
My husband had never seen the inside of a hospital except for visiting relatives. He was very healthy- until Long Covid stole that.
I wrote a few months ago about his sudden heart attack. He has been wearing a Lifevest for 2 months now. He got his MRI results recently and here they are:
Left ventricular ejection fraction is 56%. Right ventricular ejection fraction is 48%
That puts the left right at the low end of normal … and the right is below normal.
He is luckily not in severe heart failure mode but pretty close.
We are now looking at him getting an ICD.
According to the American Heart Association:
The American Heart Association recommends that before a patient is considered to be a candidate for an ICD, the arrhythmia in question must be life threatening and doctors have ruled out correctable causes of the arrhythmia, such as:
Acute myocardial infarction (heart attack)
Myocardial ischemia (inadequate blood flow to the heart muscle)
