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Revista Cubana de Pediatría
versión On-line ISSN 1561-3119
Resumen
PEREZ TORRES, Edilberto y RIOS URPAY, Eddy Percy. Multisystemic Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated With COVID-19. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2021, vol.93, n.4 Epub 01-Mar-2022. ISSN 1561-3119.
Introduction:
The condition of COVID-19 in children is mild or asymptomatic in most cases, but a small percentage has serious diseases that require admission to the pediatric intensive care unit, one of them is the multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19, characterized by fever, high acute phase reactants and involvement of various organs.
Objective:
To report two cases with multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19, in Huancayo City - Peru.
Case report:
Case 1: A 3-year-old male patient had 12-day illness period that began with upper respiratory symptoms, fever for three days, general discomfort and 4 days before admission, he showed with persistent fever, colicky abdominal pain associated with vomiting, also he had a purpuric rash on the lower limbs. As a background, his father tested positive for the PCR-RT test for COVID-19, 3 weeks before the child's admission. Case 2: A 10-year-old male patient, with a history of COVID-19 pneumonia, 15 days before admission, he had a 3-day illness period characterized by fever, fatigue and palpitations that exacerbated by physical activity.
Conclusions:
The multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children associated with COVID-19 is a new disease that requires multidisciplinary management in a pediatric intensive care unit.
Palabras clave : multisystemic inflammatory syndrome; children; COVID-19.