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- Title
Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally-Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: An Overview.
- Authors
Carter, Michael J.; Shankar-Hari, Manu; Tibby, Shane M.
- Abstract
In spring 2020 paediatricians working across Europe and the USA [[1]] alerted colleagues to clusters of previously healthy children presenting with unremitting fever, multisystem inflammation and pancarditis. This syndrome, initially termed Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS), or by its US variation Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C; Table 1), appears to be a rare complication of (largely) asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection in children [[8]]. Children with PIMS-TS were initially treated as KD or presumed toxic shock syndrome (TSS) with broad spectrum antibiotics and intravenous immunoglobulins [[1]]. A rare subset of KD patients present with shock syndrome, but these children typically have lower ferritin, troponin and less disordered coagulation than children with PIMS-TS [[5]].
- Subjects
SARS-CoV-2; MUCOCUTANEOUS lymph node syndrome; MEDICAL personnel; SYNDROMES; INFECTION; TOXIC shock syndrome
- Publication
Intensive Care Medicine, 2021, Vol 47, Issue 1, p90
- ISSN
0342-4642
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00134-020-06273-2