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- Title
Describing our experience with the effects of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children with COVID-19 on the cardiovascular system.
- Authors
Shehab, Norane; English, Robert F.
- Abstract
Cardiac involvement with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children can include coronary artery abnormalities, ventricular dysfunction, conduction abnormalities, arrhythmias, pericarditis, and myocarditis. We report the cardiac findings in 34 patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children admitted to a single institution. We looked at patient age, sex, brain natriuretic peptide levels, troponin levels, ejection fraction, presence of pericardial effusion, valvular changes, need for inotropic agents, and electrocardiogram findings. Our data showed that elevated brain natriuretic peptide did not predict troponin elevation and vice versa. Additionally, troponin rise was not a reliable marker for decreased left ventricular ejection fraction. All changes tracked were proven to be transient and resolved after initiating steroids, Intravenous immune globulin (IVIG), and occasionally anakinra.
- Publication
Cardiology in the Young, 2023, Vol 33, Issue 11, p2312
- ISSN
1047-9511
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1047951123000173