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COVID-19 and PIMS-TS-related admissions to paediatric intensive care in the Republic of Ireland January 2020 and July 2022 and analysis of cardiovascular manifestations of their disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2024

Nicola McCay Open the ORCID record for Nicola McCay [Opens in a new window] ,
Niamh Beirne ,
Erica Bereton ,
Martina Healy  and
Orla Franklin
Nicola McCay*
Affiliation:
Paediatric Intensive Care Department and Children’s heart centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Niamh Beirne
Affiliation:
Paediatric Intensive Care Department and Children’s heart centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Erica Bereton
Affiliation:
Paediatric Intensive Care Department and Children’s heart centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Martina Healy
Affiliation:
Paediatric Intensive Care Department and Children’s heart centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Orla Franklin
Affiliation:
Paediatric Intensive Care Department and Children’s heart centre, Children’s Health Ireland at Crumlin, Dublin, Republic of Ireland
*
Corresponding author: Nicola McCay; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Background and aims:

Our aim was to investigate all children admitted to paediatric intensive care units (ICU) in the Republic of Ireland between January 2020 and August 2022 with an admitting diagnosis of acute COVID-19 infection or paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome, temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) or associated illness. The patients were identified to catalogue the severity of illness, analyse cardiovascular manifestations of their disease, and short-term outcomes.

Methods:

This is a retrospective multi-centre observational study.

Results:

127 children were admitted to paediatric ICU in Ireland with a COVID-19- related illness between January 2020 and August 2022. 87 (68.5%) of patients had acute COVID-19 infection, 39 (30.7%) had PIMS-TS and 1 (0.8%) patient had post-COVID vaccine-related myocarditis. Ventilatory support was required for 47/87 (54%) in the COVID-19 group comparative to 9/39 (23%) of patients with PIMS-TS. Inotropic support was required for 13/87 (14.9%) children with COVID-19 and 29/39 (74.3%) with PIMS-TS. Evidence of any cardiac disease on ECHO was identified in 23/38 (60.5%) of the PIMS-TS cohort comparative to only 5/36 (13.9%) of patients with COVID-19. 38/39 (97.4%) of patients with PIMS-TS-related cardiac disease and 100% with COVID-19 had a normal echo at the time of discharge from hospital. Overall survival of patients was 100%.

Conclusion:

The burden of cardiac disease in children requiring paediatric ICU care for COVID-19-related disease was high in the acute phase; however, all children survived, and all cardiac investigations had normalised by short-term follow-up.

Keywords

PIMS-TSCOVID-19cardiacpaediatric intensive care
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Cardiology in the Young , Volume 34 , Issue 10 , October 2024 , pp. 2219 - 2224
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press

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