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Pediatr Infect Dis J
; 40(5): e197-e199, 2021 05 01.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-33847300
ABSTRACT
Children and adolescents with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection usually have a milder illness, lower mortality rates and may manifest different clinical entities compared with adults. Acute effusive pericarditis is a rare clinical manifestation in patients with COVID-19, especially among those without concurrent pulmonary disease or myocardial injury. We present 2 cases of acute pericarditis, in the absence of initial respiratory or other symptoms, in adolescents with COVID-19.
Subject(s)
COVID-19/diagnostic imaging , Pericardial Effusion/diagnostic imaging , Pericarditis/diagnostic imaging , SARS-CoV-2/isolation & purification , Adolescent , COVID-19/complications , COVID-19/pathology , COVID-19/virology , Female , Humans , Lung/pathology , Lung/virology , Male , Pericardial Effusion/etiology , Pericardial Effusion/pathology , Pericardial Effusion/virology , Pericarditis/etiology , Pericarditis/pathology , Pericarditis/virology
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