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Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection
A 17-year-old female, who was previously fit and well with no preexisting health conditions, presented with a four-day history of worsening shortness of breath and diarrhoea. She had recent close contact with a relative diagnosed with COVID-19. On clinical examination, she was drowsy, hypotensive, t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8942179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345745 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22420 |
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author | Desai, Chaitya Aggarwal, Sunil Khan, Ahsan A |
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description | A 17-year-old female, who was previously fit and well with no preexisting health conditions, presented with a four-day history of worsening shortness of breath and diarrhoea. She had recent close contact with a relative diagnosed with COVID-19. On clinical examination, she was drowsy, hypotensive, tachycardic, tachypnoeic, and pyrexial. Her blood tests showed elevated inflammatory markers and lymphopenia. She underwent a transthoracic echocardiogram, which confirmed a severely impaired left ventricular (LV) systolic function with an ejection fraction of 35%. An initial impression of acute viral myocarditis was made. Three separate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for SARS-CoV-2 RNA were performed, but they all returned negative. The patient was not responding to initial therapy. Therefore, the regional paediatrics hospital was consulted, and a diagnosis of paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS) was made, based on similar regional presentations. The patient was administered IV immunoglobulin therapy, to which she responded very well. Following a five-day hospital stay, the patient was discharged home as medically stable. A repeat transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed recovery of the LV systolic function to 62%. Few cases have been reported on myocardial involvement in young patients with PIMS-TS. This case report highlights the initial presentation, medical care, and clinical course of this patient. |
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spelling | pubmed-89421792022-03-27 Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection Desai, Chaitya Aggarwal, Sunil Khan, Ahsan A Cureus Cardiology A 17-year-old female, who was previously fit and well with no preexisting health conditions, presented with a four-day history of worsening shortness of breath and diarrhoea. She had recent close contact with a relative diagnosed with COVID-19. On clinical examination, she was drowsy, hypotensive, tachycardic, tachypnoeic, and pyrexial. Her blood tests showed elevated inflammatory markers and lymphopenia. She underwent a transthoracic echocardiogram, which confirmed a severely impaired left ventricular (LV) systolic function with an ejection fraction of 35%. An initial impression of acute viral myocarditis was made. Three separate polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests for SARS-CoV-2 RNA were performed, but they all returned negative. The patient was not responding to initial therapy. Therefore, the regional paediatrics hospital was consulted, and a diagnosis of paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS) was made, based on similar regional presentations. The patient was administered IV immunoglobulin therapy, to which she responded very well. Following a five-day hospital stay, the patient was discharged home as medically stable. A repeat transthoracic echocardiogram (TTE) showed recovery of the LV systolic function to 62%. Few cases have been reported on myocardial involvement in young patients with PIMS-TS. This case report highlights the initial presentation, medical care, and clinical course of this patient. Cureus 2022-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC8942179/ /pubmed/35345745 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22420 Text en Copyright © 2022, Desai et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Cardiology Desai, Chaitya Aggarwal, Sunil Khan, Ahsan A Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title | Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title_full | Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title_fullStr | Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title_full_unstemmed | Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title_short | Acute Myocarditis Secondary to Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated With COVID-19 Infection |
title_sort | acute myocarditis secondary to paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with covid-19 infection |
topic | Cardiology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8942179/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35345745 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.22420 |
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