Pediatric appendicitis in times of COVID-19: Think MIS-C

We report two cases of children presenting with clinical and radiological findings suggestive of acute appendicitis. Both patients underwent appendectomy and were subsequently diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Histopathology revealed reactive lymphoid follicle hyp...

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Autores principales: Alotaibi, Mosaab A., Alhumaidan, Wejdan, Alotaibi, Abdulnasir, Alotaibi, Abdullah M.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8673723/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34931163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2021.102151
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description We report two cases of children presenting with clinical and radiological findings suggestive of acute appendicitis. Both patients underwent appendectomy and were subsequently diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Histopathology revealed reactive lymphoid follicle hyperplasia in one patient and acute appendicitis in the other. Both patients required admission to the pediatric intensive care unit after surgery and were treated successfully with immunotherapy for MIS-C.
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spelling pubmed-86737232021-12-16 Pediatric appendicitis in times of COVID-19: Think MIS-C Alotaibi, Mosaab A. Alhumaidan, Wejdan Alotaibi, Abdulnasir Alotaibi, Abdullah M. J Pediatr Surg Case Rep Article We report two cases of children presenting with clinical and radiological findings suggestive of acute appendicitis. Both patients underwent appendectomy and were subsequently diagnosed with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). Histopathology revealed reactive lymphoid follicle hyperplasia in one patient and acute appendicitis in the other. Both patients required admission to the pediatric intensive care unit after surgery and were treated successfully with immunotherapy for MIS-C. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2022-02 2021-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8673723/ /pubmed/34931163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2021.102151 Text en © 2021 The Authors 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.
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