Acute Fulminant Myocarditis in a Pediatric Patient With COVID-19 Infection.
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- Also identified by DOI 10.1542/peds.2020-1509.
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Abstract
The majority of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) display pulmonary disease; however, a significant portion of patients have cardiac injury as well, with a high incidence of myocarditis documented in the adult population. Pediatric disease from COVID-19 has been relatively rare, and no cases of virus-related cardiac disease have been published. We present a case of an adolescent girl with fulminant myocarditis with complete heart block, elevated troponin I levels, and severely depressed systolic function in the setting of COVID-19 infection.
Medical subject headings
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus Infections
- Myocarditis
- Pandemics
- Pneumonia, Viral