Fulminant myocarditis and atrial fibrillation in child with acute COVID-19.

J Electrocardiol

Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Comer Children's Hospital and the Pritzker School of Medicine of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States of America.

Published: October 2022

COVID-19 has manifested with ventricular dysfunction and cardiac arrhythmias, most commonly atrial fibrillation (AFib), in adults. However, very few pediatric patients with acute COVID-19 have had cardiac involvement. AFib, an exceedingly rare arrhythmia in otherwise healthy children, has not been reported in children with COVID-19. We report a 15 year-old girl with acute COVID-19, fulminant myocarditis and AFib.

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