This book is the first comprehensive approach on COVID-19 cardiac complications, both during the acute phase as well as in the long-COVID period. It provides an up-to-date and highly illustrated summary of the biology of SARS-CoV-2, the course of COVID-19, risk factors that worsen the disease in COVID-19 patients, clinical features of COVID-19 patients, COVID-19 cardiological complications, treatment, and prevention methods, and long-term cardiological aspects of COVID-19. Chapters provide the reader with a contemporary perspective on the emerging links between COVID-19 and cardiovascular disease. In addition, this volume discusses the clinical implications and therapeutic goals in patients with COVID-19 and cardiac complications, as well as possible therapeutic options. It also offers clear recommendations on how to manage (both non- and pharmacologically) to avoid the increased number of COVID-19 related deaths due to CVD and its risk factors. Cardiovascular Complications of COVID-19 will be the primary resource for physicians, residents, fellows, and nursed and medical students in the fields of cardiology and COVID-19/infectious diseases as well as healthcare providers that initiate preventive activities and dedicated programs.

Prof. Maciej Banach was an Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Poland (2010-2012), and a President of the Polish Mother's Memorial Hospital - Research Institute (PMMHRI) (2014-2021). He is a Head of Cardiovascular Research Centre at University of Zielona Gora, full Professor of Cardiology at the Medical University of Lodz (MUL) and PMMHRI, Head of Department of Preventive Cardiology and Lipidology at the Medical University of Lodz (MUL), Poland. He is a Secretary of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS) (2021-2024) and member of the Scientific and Health Policy Advisory Group of the FH Europe. He is a Founder and Head of the Polish Lipid Association (PoLA) (2011-) and Lodz Chapter of Polish Society of Hypertension (2009-). He is the founder of the Lipid and Blood Pressure Meta-analysis Collaboration (LBPMC) Group (2012-) - a group of over 150 worldwide experts aimed to investigate the most important issues in the field of lipid disorders, hypertension, nutrition and cardiovascular risk, as well as the President of the International Lipid Expert Panel (ILEP; ilep.eu) (2015-), currently with >100 recognized worldwide experts, which has been founded to prepare recommendations in the area of preventive cardiology, atherosclerosis and natural products in the most debatable issues that have not been covered in the existing guidelines. He is also a member of the REPROGRAM and CAPISCO Consortia - a group of experts challenging with Covid-19 pandemic, member of 2 largest worldwide databases - the Global Burden of Disease (GDB) (IHME, University of Washington, Seattle, US) and Non-Communicable Diseases Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC, Imperial College of London, UK). He is also Founder and President of the foundation - Think-Tank "Innovation for Health", which gathers six main health research institutes and over 40 medical business representatives in Poland with main aim to make innovations in the medical area in Poland. He is a Visiting Professor of University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babes in Timisoara, Romania (2014-), and University of California, Irvine (UCI), CA, USA (2021-). Prof. Banach has published over 1200 original articles, reviews, editorials, and book chapters in the field of hypertension, dyslipidemia, cardiology, and risk stratification. His combined IF (for only full-text manuscripts) is over 10,000 pts, number of citations: 45,364 (acc. Web of Science Core Collection/Publons), 51,348 (acc. SCOPUS), 61,108 (acc. ResearchGate), and 74,361 (acc. Google Scholar) with Hirsch's Index = 80 (WoS/Publons), 81 (SCOPUS), 95 (ResearchGate) and 101 (i10-index: 634) (Google Scholar) - being within 1% the highest cited scientists in the world (in the research area of Clinical Medicine and Pharmacology and Toxicology) according to Essential Science Indicators by Clarivate (with 53 TOP Papers). Prof. Banach is also within top 5 worldwide experts according to ExpertScape in the field of statins (3), dyslipidemias (4), lipoproteins (4), HDL cholesterol (5) and LDL lipoproteins (5). He is also a 1% Top Reviewer in the areas of Clinical Medicine and Cross-Field (in 2018 and 2019) by Publons/Clarivate and Publons Academy Mentor.