Complete Heart Block, Severe Ventricular Dysfunction, and Myocardial Inflammation in a Child With COVID-19 Infection

A young child presented with severe ventricular dysfunction and troponin leak in the setting of coronavirus disease-2019. He developed intermittent, self-resolving, and hemodynamically insignificant episodes of complete heart block that were diagnosed on telemetry and managed conservatively. This re...

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Autores principales: El-Assaad, Iqbal, Hood-Pishchany, M. Indriati, Kheir, John, Mistry, Kshitij, Dixit, Avika, Halyabar, Olha, Mah, Douglas Y., Meyer-Macaulay, Colin, Cheng, Henry
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Heart Failure and Imaging
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7237189/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32835278
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.05.023
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Sumario:A young child presented with severe ventricular dysfunction and troponin leak in the setting of coronavirus disease-2019. He developed intermittent, self-resolving, and hemodynamically insignificant episodes of complete heart block that were diagnosed on telemetry and managed conservatively. This report is the first description of coronavirus disease-2019–induced transient complete heart block in a child. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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