Right Atrial Thrombus in a COVID-19 Child Treated Through Cardiac Surgery

Hamid Bigdelian; Mohsen Sedighi; Mohammad Reza Sabri; Bahar Dehghan; Zahra Pourmoghaddas; Rana Saleh; Alireza Sherafat; Gholamreza Massoumi; Mohammad Kazem Rezaei; Masoud Shahbazi

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2020.579522

Right Atrial Thrombus in a COVID-19 Child Treated Through Cardiac Surgery

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2020 Nov 12:7:579522. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2020.579522. eCollection 2020.

Affiliations

¹ Cardiovascular Research Institute, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
² Neuroscience Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
³ Pediatric Department, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
⁴ School of Medicine, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.

Abstract

We herein report a case of large intracardiac thrombus in a child with SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). The diagnosis of COVID-19 was confirmed through HRCT and RT-PCR. Transthoracic echocardiography revealed a large thrombus in the right atrium treated successfully via cardiac surgery. The underlying mechanisms of this thrombus in the COVID-19 infection may be attributed to the hypercoagulation and inflammatory condition incurred by the COVID-19 virus.

Keywords: COVID-19; cardiac surgery; fever; pediatric; thrombus—echocardiography.

Publication types

Case Reports