13-year-old Texas girl in critical condition after COVID-19 causes heart failure
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Alina Valenzuela, 13, is listed in critical condition at Texas Children s Hospital after COVID-19 damaged her heart.Contributed
A 13-year-old girl is in critical condition at Texas Children’s Hospital a week after testing positive for COVID-19 and going into cardiac arrest.
Alina Valenzuela, 13, has a previously undetected condition called myocarditis, which is inflammation of the heart muscle, according to a GoFundMe page set up by a family member, Miriam Tervino. COVID-19 complications affected Alina’s heart and caused the cardiac arrest on Jan. 11, Trevino wrote on the fundraising page. She was placed on an ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation) machine before being transferred from a hospital near her home in Pearsall to Texas Children’s on Jan. 15.