1. What is known about clinical manifestation of COVID-19 in paediatric CHD patients?

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1. What is known about clinical manifestation of COVID-19 in paediatric CHD patients?

According to the current state of the art, COVID-19 infections in children are mostly mild and self-limiting. However, children under the age of 1 year seem to have a higher risk for a severe case of the infection. Patients with underlying heart disease are not known to inherit an additional risk to acquire a COVID-19 infection. Currently there are no data on COVID-19 in children with CHD. Therefore, no sound data are available on a detailed risk stratification. Patients which are estimated at high-risk to have a severe disease course and an increased risk for a negative outcome are CHD patients with the following pathophysiology:

  • single ventricle physiology
  • pulmonary arterial hypertension
  • immunosuppressed/compromised patients. [8-10]
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