COVID (Feb 2023)

Cardiac Arrhythmias in Pediatric Age: Are They Triggered by SARS-CoV-2 Infection?

  • Jennifer Fumanelli,
  • Jolanda Sabatino,
  • Roberta Biffanti,
  • Elena Reffo,
  • Giovanni Di Salvo,
  • Loira Leoni

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/covid3020014
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 2
pp. 192 – 197

Abstract

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Coronavirus disease 2019 is a highly contagious infectious disease. Research on heart rhythm disorders in children affected by COVID-19 infection is quite lacking. An infant and a congenital heart disease (CHD) teenager with a pacemaker presented fascicular tachycardia and atrial flutter, respectively, during COVID-19 pauci-symptomatic infection. The hemodynamic condition was always stable. The self-resolving trend of the atrial flutter and progressive resolution of the ventricular tachycardia occurred in conjunction with the negativization of the swab. These particular tachyarrhythmias have been reported as a form of potential arrhythmic complication during active pauci-symptomatic COVID-19 infection for the first time ever.

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