JACC: Case Reports (Jul 2020)

Complete Heart Block, Severe Ventricular Dysfunction, and Myocardial Inflammation in a Child With COVID-19 Infection

  • Iqbal El-Assaad, MD,
  • M. Indriati Hood-Pishchany, MD, PhD,
  • John Kheir, MD,
  • Kshitij Mistry, MD,
  • Avika Dixit, MBBS, MPH,
  • Olha Halyabar, MD,
  • Douglas Y. Mah, MD,
  • Colin Meyer-Macaulay, MD,
  • Henry Cheng, MD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 9
pp. 1351 – 1355

Abstract

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A young child presented with severe ventricular dysfunction and troponin leak in the setting of coronavirus disease-2019. He developed intermittent, self-resolving, and hemodynamically insignificant episodes of complete heart block that were diagnosed on telemetry and managed conservatively. This report is the first description of coronavirus disease-2019–induced transient complete heart block in a child. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

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