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
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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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author Pruc, Michal
Smereka, Jacek
Dzieciatkowski, Tomasz
Jaguszewski, Milosz
Filipiak, Krzysztof J.
Szarpak, Lukasz
author_facet Pruc, Michal
Smereka, Jacek
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description 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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spelling pubmed-72891072020-06-12 Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19 Pruc, Michal Smereka, Jacek Dzieciatkowski, Tomasz Jaguszewski, Milosz Filipiak, Krzysztof J. Szarpak, Lukasz Med Hypotheses Letter to Editors 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. Elsevier Ltd. 2020-11 2020-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC7289107/ /pubmed/32562912 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mehy.2020.109986 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Letter to Editors
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Smereka, Jacek
Dzieciatkowski, Tomasz
Jaguszewski, Milosz
Filipiak, Krzysztof J.
Szarpak, Lukasz
Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title_full Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title_fullStr Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title_short Kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with COVID-19
title_sort kawasaki disease shock syndrome or toxic shock syndrome in children and the relationship with covid-19
topic Letter to Editors
url 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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