Impact of coronavirus disease 2019 in a child who underwent ventricular septal defect device closure: a case report.
Saud A BahaidarahAhmed M DohainGaser A AbdelmohsenAbeer A AlnajjarJameel Al-AtaPublished in: European heart journal. Case reports (2020)
This child had multiple risk factors, including malnutrition and persistent pulmonary hypertension (PH) after late closure of the VSD. The pre-existing PH could have been aggravated by the lung condition associated with COVID-19 and the respiratory failure triggered by SARS-CoV-2 infection. The patient presented with ventricular systolic dysfunction, elevated troponin serum levels and newly developed trifascicular block, which were indicative of myocardial injury. The elevated inflammatory markers and multi-organ dysfunction seem to corroborate multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, which was described recently among paediatric patients with COVID-19.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- respiratory failure
- left ventricular
- heart failure
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- pulmonary hypertension
- risk factors
- oxidative stress
- mental health
- case report
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- mechanical ventilation
- sars cov
- catheter ablation
- blood pressure
- intensive care unit
- young adults
- emergency department
- pulmonary artery
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- atrial fibrillation