Key result
SARS-CoV-2 infection is linked to multisystem inflammatory syndrome involving hyperinflammatory shock and Kawasaki-like cardiac injury.
Why the study?
Hyperinflammatory shock and acute cardiac injury resembling Kawasaki disease were described in children during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, with frequent troponin elevation and left ventricular dysfunction suggesting acute myocarditis, but cardiac MRI descriptions were lacking.
Highlights the clinical presentation of hyperinflammatory shock and acute myocarditis associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Alerts clinicians to SARS-CoV-2 in hyperinflammatory cardiac presentations; leaves open incidence, mechanisms, and targeted therapies.
Hékimian et al. (2020) conducted an editorial in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Acute Myocarditis and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome. SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with a multisystem inflammatory syndrome involving hyperinflammatory shock and acute cardiac injury resembling Kawasaki disease.
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