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  • Paediatric Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome Temporally Related to SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) is a rare novel clinical entity observed in children and adolescents with evidence of a recent COVID-19 infection, and is characterized by a marked hyperinflammatory state with involvement of multiple organ systems We report a case of a previously healthy 15-year-old female patient, who was admitted to paediatric intensive care with cardiac failure and was subsequently shown to have positive COVID-19 serology The presenting symptoms were fever, cough, chest pain and gastro-intestinal symptoms She was supported with milrinone and a low dose of vasopressors Her hyperinflammatory state was treated with intravenous immunoglobulins, high dose aspirin and high-dose methylprednisolone PIMS-TS is a rare, potentially life threatening novel clinical entity in children and adolescents with evidence of a COVID-19 infection Clinicians need to be aware of the possibility of this new disease, to ensure prompt recognition and treatment
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  • Ned_Tijdschr_Geneeskd
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  • WHO
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  • [COVID-19-associated hyperinflammatory state in a 15-year-old female patient]
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  • #979347
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  • 2020

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