Cardiogenic shock complicating multisystem inflammatory syndrome following COVID-19 infection: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the high prevalence of COVID-19 infections worldwide, the multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A) is becoming an increasingly recognized entity. This syndrome presents in patients several weeks after infection with COVID-19 and is associated with thrombosis, elevated inflammatory markers, hemodynamic compromise and cardiac dysfunction. Treatment is often with steroids and intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg). The pathologic basis of myocardial injury in MIS-A, however, is not well characterized. In our case report, we obtained endomyocardial biopsy that revealed a pattern of myocardial injury similar to that found in COVID-19 cardiac specimens.

Case presentation

A 26-year-old male presented with fevers, chills, headache, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhe

SUBMITTER: Gurin MI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8555861 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature