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Editor, Senior Moderator
Pediatr Infect Dis J
. 2020 May 11.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002744. Online ahead of print.
Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis
Marie-Laure Oberweis[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Andrei Codreanu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Wolfgang Boehm[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Damien Olivier[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Charlotte Pierron[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Chantal Tsobo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Michel Kohnen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tamir T Abdelrahman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Nguyen T Nguyen[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Kerstin Wagner[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Isabel de la Fuente Garcia[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
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.
. 2020 May 11.
doi: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002744. Online ahead of print.
Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis
Marie-Laure Oberweis[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP], Andrei Codreanu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Wolfgang Boehm[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Damien Olivier[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Charlotte Pierron[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Chantal Tsobo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Michel Kohnen[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tamir T Abdelrahman[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Nguyen T Nguyen[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Kerstin Wagner[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Isabel de la Fuente Garcia[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32427645
- 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.