Cardiovascular Outcomes in Children with Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Treated with Therapeutic Plasma Exchange.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a new, rare, post-infectious complication of SARS-CoV-2 infection in children. The aim of this study was to display the role of therapeutic plasma exchange on cardiovascular outcomes in children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome.

Methods

This study included children who met the diagnostic criteria for multisystem inflammatory syndrome and who were admitted to the intensive care unit. This is a prospective single-center study conducted between August 2020 and September 2021. Subjects had cardiac involvement which was defined as elevated troponin I, abnormal electrocardiographic and echocardiographic findings. Patients were followed by a pediatric cardiologist throughout the intensive care unit stay and after dis

SUBMITTER: Tuncer T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9688591 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature