AI Article Synopsis
- The COVID-19 pandemic is a serious global health crisis, but most children experience mild symptoms from the virus.
- A rare and dangerous complication in kids is Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), which can be life-threatening.
- This text discusses a specific case where a child with COVID-19 had appendicitis, with the virus also found in the appendix tissue.
Article Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is a global health emergency. The clinical course of COVID-19 in children is mild in most of the cases, but multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is recognized as a potential life-threatening complication of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Acute abdomen as a presentation of COVID-19 is rare, and its correlation to COVID-19 features and prognosis remains undetermined. Herein, we describe a case of appendicitis in a child with confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19 and subsequent SARS-CoV-2 identification in appendix tissue.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8580246 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bjid.2021.101651 | DOI Listing |
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