COVID-19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in three teenagers with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection
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- DOI: 10.1002/jmv.26206
COVID-19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in three teenagers with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection
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.
© 2020 Wiley Periodicals LLC.
Conflict of interest statement
The authors declare that there are no conflict of interests.
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