Janik Möser
Heart muscle inflammation after Covid-19: ice hockey professional warns of the disease
Ice hockey professional Janik Möser, here still in the Adler Mannheim jersey
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The corona virus can also be dangerous for athletes: the ice hockey player Janik Möser suffers from a heart muscle inflammation after a corona infection. Doctors see a connection.
Covid-19 is particularly dangerous for the elderly and people with previous illnesses. But in isolated cases the disease takes a severe course even at a young age – even among professional athletes. The latest example is the ice hockey player Janik Möser. The 25-year-old plays in the highest German ice hockey league DEL for the Grizzlys Wolfsburg. After a corona infection, he now suffers from heart muscle inflammation, which is apparently due to the virus.
“Apart from Corona, Janik couldn’t find anything that could have been the trigger,” said the grizzly team doctor, Axel Gänsslen, to the “Wolfsburger Nachrichten”, which first reported on the case. Doctors from the Berlin Charité who examined Möser also see the infection as a trigger. In an interview with the “Wolfsburger Nachrichten”, the player warned against underestimating the disease: “With my case I would like to point out to other professional and amateur athletes that they should not take a corona infection lightly.”
Ice hockey player Möser: Corona attacks the heart
Möser had already tested positive for the corona virus in October. After a two-week quarantine, he actually felt fit again – “but the examinations say something different,” said Grizzlys manager Karl-Heinz Fliegauf. The effects on the heart were only discovered by chance as a result of an exercise ECG. The club had initially not made the corona infection of its player public and only spoke of a “flu-like infection”. But now they want to “raise awareness of the topic”, said Fliegauf.
Janik Möser only moved from Adler Mannheim to Wolfsburg in the summer. He will miss the start of the DEL season on December 17th, currently he is not even allowed to participate in training. Möser will be examined again in January.
Those: “Wolfsburg News”
