Ho Chi Minh City: 12-year-old boy dies from complications of diphtheria and severe myocarditis | News



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Doctor Phan Tu Quy, Head of the Department of Childhood Poisoning and Active Rehabilitation, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, at 13.9 morning, the child was transferred from Kon Tum to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases. MCH with diphtheria at 7 days.

Pediatrician hospitalized in serious condition with fever, drowsiness, low blood pressure; heart failure, arrhythmia, heart enzymes increased many times. Immediately, the child was placed with a pacemaker, vasopressors administered, and ventilated.

With severe illness, the child is considered to use ECMO (the technique of oxidation of blood outside the body) to save lives. However, due to severe heart damage, the patient did not disappear after 10 hours of hospitalization.

What is diphtheria and how dangerous is it?

Before that, in June and 7, 2020, two children with malignant diphtheria in Dak Nong province transferred to Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases did not survive due to serious complications of myocarditis.

2 months ago, the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases also received another 6-year-old male patient (Kon Tum resident) with complications of severe myocarditis, cardiac arrhythmia … The patient was put on a pacemaker. artificial heart, for mechanical ventilation. On September 14, the pediatric patient had stopped ventilating and had previously stopped the artificial pacemaker. Children are currently exposed …

Currently, the Children’s Intensive Rehabilitation Department of the Ho Chi Minh City Hospital for Tropical Diseases is treating another diphtheria patient (17 years old, living in Lam Dong), hospitalized a week ago. Now the patient is awake.

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