Frontiers in Pediatrics (Jun 2021)

Case Report: Acute Intracardiac Thrombosis in Children With Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

  • Hamid Bigdelian,
  • Hamid Bigdelian,
  • Mohsen Sedighi,
  • Mohammad Reza Sabri,
  • Bahar Dehghan,
  • Chehreh Mahdavi,
  • Alireza Ahmadi,
  • Mehdi Ghaderian,
  • Hamid Rahimi,
  • Atefeh Sadeghizadeh,
  • Monirsadat Emadoleslami,
  • Seyed Nasser Mostafavi,
  • Rana Saleh,
  • Niloofar Javadi,
  • Maryam Derakhshan,
  • Zahra Pourmoghaddas,
  • Shima Sarfarazi Moghadam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fped.2021.656720
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9

Abstract

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We herein describe a case series of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) complicated with acute intracardiac thrombosis. The diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed through the reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Transthoracic echocardiography of patients revealed large intracardiac mobile masses resected successfully via cardiac surgery. The underlying mechanisms of this thrombus in the COVID-19 infection may be attributed to the hypercoagulation and inflammatory state of the disease incurred by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

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