Cardiovascular events in children with brain injury : A systematic review

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BACKGROUND: Brain injury is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the pediatric population. Neurogenic stunned cardiomyopathy is a complication associated with several neurological conditions that can lead to worse outcomes. It presents as alterations in blood pressure, cardiac rhythm disturbances and the increase in cardiac injury biomarkers. This systematic review aims to assess the hemodynamic consequences of brain injury in the pediatric population to identify better management strategies and improve outcomes.

METHODS: An electronic literature search was performed in Pubmed, Scopus and WebOfScience, up until October 3rd, 2022. The selected articles underwent quality assessment using the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute tools for cohort and case-control studies.

RESULTS: This systematic review includes thirteen articles on the effects of brain injury in arterial pressure, rhythm disturbances and biomarkers of myocardial injury. These studies showed the following key results: both hypotension and hypertension are associated with worse outcomes; brain injury could be related to longer QTc intervals; neurogenic stunned cardiomyopathy was a common found after brain injury.

CONCLUSION: This is the first systematic review to report cardiovascular abnormalities arising from brain injury in children. An early arterial pressure, electrocardiographic and echocardiographic evaluation, as well as the measure of serum biomarkers for myocardial injury, can be critical in identifying poor prognostic factors. Further research is required to understand the implications of our findings in clinical practice.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:387

Enthalten in:

International journal of cardiology - 387(2023) vom: 15. Sept., Seite 131132

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Silva, Marta João [VerfasserIn]
Carneiro, Bárbara [VerfasserIn]
Mota, Ricardo [VerfasserIn]
Baptista, Maria João [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Arrhythmias
Biomarkers
Blood pressure
Brain injury
Journal Article
Myocardial injury
Pediatrics
Systematic Review

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Date Completed 31.07.2023

Date Revised 16.09.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ijcard.2023.131132

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM358566045