| The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a new, unknown virus, that was first detected in December 2019, in Wuhan city of China (1,2). The primary manifestation of the disease was with flu-like symptoms and pneumonia, followed by hypoxia which required hospitalization or even stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) (3). Due to high transmission rate, the COVID-19 pandemic spread rapidly across the globe (4).
The death toll from the COVID-19 disease as of end of 2020 was reported more than 1.7 million (5). Although the primary course of treatment was carried out by pulmonologists and infectious specialists, gradually-increased reports on cardiovascular |