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Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia

Fortunately, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in pediatric populations exhibits a mild course of disease. However, a small number have recently been identified who develop a significant systemic inflammatory response, a new disease entity called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in chil...

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Autores principales: Almoosa, Zainab A, Al Ameer, Heba H, AlKadhem, Sajjad M, Busaleh, Fadi, AlMuhanna, Fatimah A, Kattih, Osama
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240687
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11064
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author Almoosa, Zainab A
Al Ameer, Heba H
AlKadhem, Sajjad M
Busaleh, Fadi
AlMuhanna, Fatimah A
Kattih, Osama
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description Fortunately, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in pediatric populations exhibits a mild course of disease. However, a small number have recently been identified who develop a significant systemic inflammatory response, a new disease entity called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), especially after the peak of the wave in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, in early June to mid-July. In MIS-C children usually present a few days to a few weeks after recovery from COVID-19 with high grade fever, GI symptoms, Kawasaki-like picture or even toxic shock-like syndrome. Raising awareness about this disease entity is very fundamental to enable pediatricians and other health care providers to identify and manage these patients before it is too late. We describe 10 different cases of MIS-C with different risk factors and presentations.
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spelling pubmed-76826342020-11-24 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia Almoosa, Zainab A Al Ameer, Heba H AlKadhem, Sajjad M Busaleh, Fadi AlMuhanna, Fatimah A Kattih, Osama Cureus Pediatrics Fortunately, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in pediatric populations exhibits a mild course of disease. However, a small number have recently been identified who develop a significant systemic inflammatory response, a new disease entity called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), especially after the peak of the wave in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia, in early June to mid-July. In MIS-C children usually present a few days to a few weeks after recovery from COVID-19 with high grade fever, GI symptoms, Kawasaki-like picture or even toxic shock-like syndrome. Raising awareness about this disease entity is very fundamental to enable pediatricians and other health care providers to identify and manage these patients before it is too late. We describe 10 different cases of MIS-C with different risk factors and presentations. Cureus 2020-10-20 /pmc/articles/PMC7682634/ /pubmed/33240687 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11064 Text en Copyright © 2020, Almoosa et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Almoosa, Zainab A
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Kattih, Osama
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title_full Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title_fullStr Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title_full_unstemmed Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title_short Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, the Real Disease of COVID-19 in Pediatrics - A Multicenter Case Series From Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
title_sort multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, the real disease of covid-19 in pediatrics - a multicenter case series from al-ahsa, saudi arabia
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682634/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33240687
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11064
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