Open AccessKawasaki disease shock syndrome in the COVID-19 pandemic
Author(s) -
Luisa Berenise Gámez-González,
Moisés Ramírez-López,
Marcela Colmenero-Rascón,
Marco Antonio YamazakiNakashimada
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
cardiology in the young
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.386
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1467-1107
pISSN - 1047-9511
DOI - 10.1017/s1047951121003280
Subject(s) - kawasaki disease , medicine , covid-19 , pandemic , shock (circulatory) , disease , virology , cardiology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak , artery
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children is a new entity in association with SARS-CoV2. Clinical features of Kawasaki disease were noted from the first reported cases of MIS-C. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kawasaki disease shock syndrome was considered to be a distinct and unique form of KD. We present a representative case that prove the current difficulty in clearly distinguishing MIS-C from pre-COVID-19-KDSS and emphasie the overlap of the diagnostic criteria.