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Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis | Synapse

May 14, 2020The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal41 citationsOpen Access

Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis

MOMarie-Laure Oberweis ACAndreï Codreanu WBW. Boehm

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Pediatric patient with life-threatening coronavirus disease 2019 presenting as myocarditis with heart failure (n=1)

Clinicians should be aware that COVID-19 in children can present severely as myocarditis with heart failure.

Abstract

We report the case of a pediatric life-threatening coronavirus disease 2019 who presented as myocarditis with heart failure. Clinicians should be aware of this severe presentation of the disease in children, possibly linked to an exaggerated inflammatory host immune response to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

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Oberweis et al. (2020) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7d3f2d2f2f9d79738b28ee https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1097/inf.0000000000002744

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