Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2020 Jul;39(7):e147-e149. doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002744.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus / isolation & purification*
  • COVID-19
  • Cellulitis / virology
  • Child
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronavirus Infections / physiopathology*
  • Coronavirus Infections / virology
  • Disease Progression
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Myocarditis / diagnostic imaging
  • Myocarditis / physiopathology
  • Myocarditis / virology*
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumonia, Viral / physiopathology*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / virology
  • Renal Insufficiency / virology
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Thorax / diagnostic imaging