Open AccessPediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis
Author(s) -
Marie-Laure Oberweis,
Andreï Codreanu,
W. Boehm,
Damien Olivier,
Charlotte Pierron,
Chantal Tsobo,
Michel Kohnen,
Tamer Abdelrahman,
Nguyen T Nguyen,
Kerstin Wagner,
Isabel García
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the pediatric infectious disease journal/the pediatric infectious disease journal
Language(s) - Uncategorized
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.028
H-Index - 140
eISSN - 1532-0987
pISSN - 0891-3668
DOI - 10.1097/inf.0000000000002744
Subject(s) - myocarditis , medicine , coronavirus , covid-19 , disease , heart failure , intensive care medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , viral myocarditis , immune system , pediatrics , immunology , cardiology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , virology , surgery , outbreak
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.