The Heart of Pediatric Patients with COVID-19: New Insights from a Systematic Echocardiographic Study in a Tertiary Hospital in Brazil.

Maria de Fátima Rodrigues DinizMaira Freire CardosoKaren Saori Shiraishi SawamuraCarolina Rocha Brito MenezesAlessandro Cavalcanti LianzaMaria Fernanda Badue PereiraNadia LitvinovJuliana Ferreira FerrantiSilvana ForsaitAndreia WatanabeSylvia Costa Lima FarhatNadia Emi AikawaLucia Maria Arruda CamposArtur Figueiredo DelgadoMagda Carneiro-SampaioWerther Brunow de CarvalhoClovis Artur SilvaGabriela Nunes Leal

Published in: Arquivos brasileiros de cardiologia (2021)

Echocardiographic abnormalities in COVID-19 pediatric patients were frequent and associated with worse clinical outcomes. Exacerbation of the inflammation and coagulation pathways may play an important role in cardiovascular injury in those patients.

Keyphrases

ejection fraction
end stage renal disease
coronavirus disease
left ventricular
pulmonary hypertension
sars cov
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
chronic kidney disease
mitral valve
oxidative stress
heart failure
left atrial
intensive care unit
young adults
extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
patient reported