COVID‐19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in three teenagers with confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

Journal of Medical Virology - Tập 92 Số 11 - Trang 2880-2886 - 2020
Khuen Foong Ng1, Trishul Kothari1, Srini Bandi2, Paul Bird3, Kanika Goyal1, Zoha Mohammad1, Vinayak Rai2, Julian W. Tang3,4
1Children's Intensive Care Unit, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
2Department of Paediatric, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
3Department of Clinical Microbiology, Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK
4Department of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK

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AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is generally a relatively mild illness in children. An emerging disease entity coined as pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS‐CoV‐2 (PIMS‐TS) has been reported recently, but is very rare and only affects a very small minority of children. Here we describe the clinical presentations and outcomes of three teenagers with serologically‐confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit for PIMS‐TS. Although their initial presentations were very similar, their COVID‐19‐related disease varied in severity.

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