The role and efficacy of routine high-sensitivity troponin T screening in paediatric COVID-19.

Mehmet Gökhan Ramoğlu Selen Karagözlü Ozlem Bayram Jeyhun Bakhtiyarzada Alperen Aydın Göksel Vatansever Halil Özdemir Deniz Tekin Tayfun Ucar Ergin Çiftçi Hasan Ercan Tutar

Published in: Cardiology in the young (2022)

Routine troponin screening does not yield much information in previously healthy paediatric COVID-19 patients without any sign of myocardial dysfunction. Elevated troponin levels may be observed but it is mostly a sign of myocardial injury without detectable myocardial dysfunction in this group of patients.

Keyphrases

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end stage renal disease
intensive care unit
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left ventricular
coronavirus disease
ejection fraction
oxidative stress
clinical practice
chronic kidney disease
newly diagnosed
healthcare
patient reported outcomes
respiratory syndrome coronavirus