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Case Reports
. 2020 Nov;92(11):2880-2886.
doi: 10.1002/jmv.26206. Epub 2020 Jul 6.

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

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

Khuen Foong Ng et al. J Med Virol. 2020 Nov.

Abstract

Coronavirus 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.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; inflammatory; multisystem.

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The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.

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Figure 1
Line graph representation of full blood count, coagulation profile and biochemistry results for all three cases according to day of admission
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Figure 2
Chest radiographs of all three cases according to day of admission

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