Open AccessMultisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults (MIS-A) Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Young Adult Case from Turkey
Author(s) -
Sibel Altunışık Toplu,
Yasemin Ersoy,
Yaşar Bayındır,
Talat Kılıç,
Volkan Bayazit
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medeniyet medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2149-2042
pISSN - 2149-4606
DOI - 10.5222/mmj.2021.95422
Subject(s) - medicine , abdominal pain , pericardial effusion , pleural effusion , young adult , covid-19 , disease , pediatrics , systemic inflammatory response syndrome , surgery , sepsis , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Weeks and even months after recovering from the SARS-CoV-2 infection, clinically more severe cases are being reported, which are suggestive of COVID-19- related multisystemic inflammatory syndromes (MIS). Firstly on March 2020, this condition was reported to be COVID-19 related to children (MIS-C). Since June 2020, a syndrome similar to multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults (MIS-A) came to be noticed in adults as well. We reported here a case of 24-year-old young woman who had gone to a hospital with abdominal pain and later developed a severe cough, followed by development of subconjunctival bleeding, pericardial effusion, pleural effusion, and intra-abdominal fluid that we deemed them to be acute multisystemic clinical symptoms, 47 days after she had undergone a COVID-19 infection of mild clinical severity. It should be kept in mind that a multisystemic inflammatory syndrome along with a delayed immune response during COVID-19 disease can be seen not only in children but also in young adults, and seemingly severe clinical and laboratory findings can improve by controlling the inflammatory process.