Myocardial injury will directly affect the contractile function of the baby’s heart, untreated may have sequelae, and in serious cases, may lead to life-threatening complications.
1. Affect the heart’s diastolic function: the heart muscle is an important structure to maintain the heart pumping and catalyzing blood circulation, myocardial damage when the heart’s diastolic function decreases, the baby will appear precordial pain, chest tightness, panic attacks, fatigue, irritability and other symptoms. In addition, the heart’s ability to promote blood flow is reduced, the blood supply of oxygen is insufficient, the baby will appear shortness of breath, dyspnea and other symptoms.
2. Sequelae: long-term damage to the heart muscle cells will occur fibrosis, fibrosis is irreversible, even after treatment, the baby may also be left with reduced exercise tolerance, cardiac insufficiency and other sequelae, affecting the baby’s subsequent quality of life.
3. Life-threatening: severe myocardial damage may cause cardiogenic shock, arrhythmia, heart failure, myocardial ischemia and other complications, affecting the baby’s life and health, and may even cause sudden death and other serious consequences, life-threatening.
Myocardial damage in babies is common in viral myocarditis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and other cardiac lesions, when the baby is found to have myocardial damage, the baby should be taken to the hospital in a timely manner, as early as possible treatment can minimize the damage to the myocardium.