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. 2020 Aug;146(2):e20201509.
doi: 10.1542/peds.2020-1509.

Acute Fulminant Myocarditis in a Pediatric Patient With COVID-19 Infection

Diego Lara  1   2 , Thomas Young  1   2 , Kamill Del Toro  1 , Victor Chan  2 , Cora Ianiro  2 , Kenneth Hunt  2 , Jake Kleinmahon  3   2
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Acute Fulminant Myocarditis in a Pediatric Patient With COVID-19 Infection

Diego Lara et al. Pediatrics. 2020 Aug.

Abstract

The majority of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) display pulmonary disease; however, a significant portion of patients have cardiac injury as well, with a high incidence of myocarditis documented in the adult population. Pediatric disease from COVID-19 has been relatively rare, and no cases of virus-related cardiac disease have been published. We present a case of an adolescent girl with fulminant myocarditis with complete heart block, elevated troponin I levels, and severely depressed systolic function in the setting of COVID-19 infection.

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