Di Nardo Matteo, Franceschini Alessio, Tissieres Pierre, Chinali Marcello
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Department of Medical and Surgical Cardiology, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, 00165 Rome, Italy.
Children (Basel). 2022 Jan 24;9(2):146. doi: 10.3390/children9020146.
Conventional echocardiography is an essential tool for the diagnosis, bedside management and follow-up evaluations of children with multisystem inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19. However, a more comprehensive echocardiographic exam, including myocardial deformation parameters, may allow early identification of subtle changes in ventricular function, provide risk stratification and, identify sub-clinical cardiac dysfunction at follow-up. Thus, myocardial deformation analysis should be routinely integrated to conventional echocardiography assessment in these patients.
传统超声心动图是诊断、床边管理及随访评估新型冠状病毒肺炎相关多系统炎症综合征患儿的重要工具。然而，一项更全面的超声心动图检查，包括心肌变形参数，可能有助于早期识别心室功能的细微变化，进行风险分层，并在随访中识别亚临床心脏功能障碍。因此，对于这些患者，心肌变形分析应常规纳入传统超声心动图评估中。
