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COVID‐19 multisystem inflammatory syndrome in three teenagers with confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection
Author(s) -
Ng Khuen Foong,
Kothari Trishul,
Bandi Srini,
Bird Paul William,
Goyal Kanika,
Zoha Mohammad,
Rai Vinayak,
Tang Julian WeiTze
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of medical virology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1096-9071
pISSN - 0146-6615
DOI - 10.1002/jmv.26206
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , disease , coronavirus , pediatric intensive care unit , severity of illness , intensive care unit , pediatrics , virology , immunology , intensive care medicine , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is generally a relatively mild illness in children. An emerging disease entity coined as pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS‐CoV‐2 (PIMS‐TS) has been reported recently, but is very rare and only affects a very small minority of children. Here we describe the clinical presentations and outcomes of three teenagers with serologically‐confirmed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection admitted to a pediatric intensive care unit for PIMS‐TS. Although their initial presentations were very similar, their COVID‐19‐related disease varied in severity.