Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19

Most pediatric patients with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms. However, in the last two months, first in Europe and recently in the United States, a small number of children have developed a more severe inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19, which often leads to hospital...

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Autores principales: Pruc, Michal, Smereka, Jacek, Dzieciatkowski, Tomasz, Jaguszewski, Milosz, Filipiak, Krzysztof J., Szarpak, Lukasz
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Ltd. 2020
Materias:
Letter to Editors
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7289107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32562912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109986
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Sumario:Most pediatric patients with COVID-19 are asymptomatic or show only mild symptoms. However, in the last two months, first in Europe and recently in the United States, a small number of children have developed a more severe inflammatory syndrome associated with COVID-19, which often leads to hospitalization and sometimes requires intensive care. A potential relationship was observed, especially between the occurrence of the Kawasaki disease and viral upper respiratory tract infections.

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