Pediatric Life-Threatening Coronavirus Disease 2019 With Myocarditis. Issue 7 (July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Oberweis, Marie-Laure; Codreanu, Andrei; Boehm, Wolfgang; Olivier, Damien; Pierron, Charlotte; Tsobo, Chantal; Kohnen, Michel; Abdelrahman, Tamir T.; Nguyen, Nguyen T.; Wagner, Kerstin; de la Fuente Garcia, Isabel
• Is Part Of: Pediatric infectious disease journal. Volume 39:Issue 7(2020)
• Publication Date: 2020-07
• Subjects: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 -- coronavirus disease 2019 -- myocarditis -- Tocilizumab -- children; Communicable diseases in children -- Periodicals; Infection in children -- Periodicals; 618.929
• DOI: 10.1097/INF.0000000000002744
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0891-3668

Abstract

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.