Cardiovascular Complications in Children Post COVID-19: A Systematic Review

Overview

Journal Adv Biomed Res

Specialty Biomedical Engineering

Date 2024 Dec 24

PMID 39717247

Authors

Alireza Ahmadi

Mohammad Reza Sabri

Mehdi Ghaderian

Bahar Dehghan

Chehreh Mahdavi

Niloofar Mohkamkar

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Abstract

Cardiovascular involvements are one of the most important and threatening problems of SARS-CoV-2 infection and can cause a wide range of clinical manifestations in children. Therefore, a review of previous studies is necessary to prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular complications and reduce the risk of mortality in this age group of patients. To investigate the cardiovascular complications in children with COVID-19, international authoritative databases including PubMed, Scopus, Embase, Web of Science, Google Scholar, and Persian databases were searched using the main concepts, all articles were published between January 2020 and November 2022. According to the results of the present study, no deaths due to cardiovascular involvement were reported in the studied healthy children with COVID-19. In addition, in electrocardiogram (ECG) findings, supraventricular arrhythmias (SVA) and ventricular arrhythmias (VA) and in echo findings, left ventricular dysfunction (LVD) have had the most consequences.

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