Reversible Myocardial Injury Associated With SARS-CoV-2 in an Infant

Madhu Sharma, MD; Samuel Gorstein, MD; Margaret L. Aldrich, MD; Daphne T. Hsu, MD; Nadine F. Choueiter, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Dec 2020)

Reversible Myocardial Injury Associated With SARS-CoV-2 in an Infant

Madhu Sharma, MD,
Samuel Gorstein, MD,
Margaret L. Aldrich, MD,
Daphne T. Hsu, MD,
Nadine F. Choueiter, MD

Affiliations

Madhu Sharma, MD: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA; Address for correspondence: Dr. Madhu Sharma, The Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, 3415 Bainbridge Avenue, Bronx, New York 10467, USA.
Samuel Gorstein, MD: Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA
Margaret L. Aldrich, MD: Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA
Daphne T. Hsu, MD: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA
Nadine F. Choueiter, MD: Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Bronx, New York, USA

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 15
pp. 2348 – 2352

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Coronavirus disease-2019 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and has been associated with myocardial dysfunction and heart failure in adult patients. We report a case of reversible myocardial injury and heart failure in an infant with SARS-CoV-2 infection. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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