Severe clinical spectrum with high mortality in pediatric patients with COVID-19 and multisystem inflammatory syndrome.
Maria Fernanda Badue PereiraNadia LitvinovSylvia Costa Lima FarhatAdriana Pasmanik EisencraftMaria Augusta Bento Cicaroni GibelliWerther Brunow de B CarvalhoVinicius Rodrigues FernandesThais de Toledo FinkJuliana Valéria de Souza FramilKarine Vusberg GalletiAlice Lima FanteMaria Fernanda Mota FonsecaAndreia WatanabeCamila Sanson Yoshino de PaulaGiovanna Gavros PalandriGabriela Nunes LealMaria de Fatima Rodrigues DinizJoão Renato Rebello PinhoClovis Artur Almeida da SilvaHeloisa Helena de Sousa Marquesnull nullAlfio Rossi JuniorArtur Figueiredo DelgadoAnarella Penha Meirelles de AndradeClaudio SchvartsmanEster Cerdeira SabinoMussya Cisotto RochaKelly Aparecida KanunfreThelma Suely OkayMagda Maria Sales Carneiro-SampaioPatricia Palmeira Daenekas JorgePublished in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2020)
Pediatric patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 with MIS-C had a severe clinical spectrum with a high mortality rate. Our study emphasizes the importance of investigating MIS-C in pediatric patients with COVID-19 presenting with gastrointestinal involvement and hypoxemia.