Abstract:

ABSTRACT "Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)", which was declared as an epidemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020 and named as "Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)" is generally mild in children. In April 2020, the Pediatric Intensive Care Association in the United Kingdom issued a warning about children presenting with an unusual clinical picture coinciding with toxic shock and atypical Kawasaki disease, including pronounced gastrointestinal symptoms and myocardial involvement. After this date, similar cases began to be reported in various centers in Europe. The World Health Organization defined these cases as pediatric multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) on May 14, 2020. Although it has usually a mild course in children, it can be fatal when COVID-19 causes MIS-C picture. Early diagnosis and treatment is important, especially since cardiac involvement is seen in most patients with MIS-C. In this review, we wanted to evaluation of COVID-19 in terms of cardiac involvement in the light of the literature.

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