Kawasaki disease shock syndrome in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cardiol Young

Immunology Department, Instituto Nacional de Pediatría, Mexico City, Mexico.

Published: March 2022

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.

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