The rising appendicitis mimicker: A case report of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children presenting with acute abdomen

We describe a case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The 12-year-old child presented with appendicitis-like symptoms in the form of gradually worsening abdominal pain localizing over the right iliac fossa, fever, and vomiting. After an...

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Autores principales: Salaheldin, Esraa O, Lasheen, Reham A, ElTohamy, Abdelrahman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8902197/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35273802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X221082903
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description We describe a case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The 12-year-old child presented with appendicitis-like symptoms in the form of gradually worsening abdominal pain localizing over the right iliac fossa, fever, and vomiting. After an appendectomy, the abdominal pain did not resolve. He later developed orthopnea, bilateral lower limb pitting edema, and bilateral fine basal crepitations. This pointed to MIS-C. We should be mindful of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in children with a recent history of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-89021972022-03-09 The rising appendicitis mimicker: A case report of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children presenting with acute abdomen Salaheldin, Esraa O Lasheen, Reham A ElTohamy, Abdelrahman SAGE Open Med Case Rep Case Report We describe a case of post-coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). The 12-year-old child presented with appendicitis-like symptoms in the form of gradually worsening abdominal pain localizing over the right iliac fossa, fever, and vomiting. After an appendectomy, the abdominal pain did not resolve. He later developed orthopnea, bilateral lower limb pitting edema, and bilateral fine basal crepitations. This pointed to MIS-C. We should be mindful of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in children with a recent history of COVID-19. SAGE Publications 2022-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC8902197/ /pubmed/35273802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2050313X221082903 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_full_unstemmed The rising appendicitis mimicker: A case report of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children presenting with acute abdomen
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