The uncertain future of Covid 19: Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with coronavirus disease 2019!

 | Post date: 2021/09/23 | 
The current knowledge about the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) pandemic is still limited and is unravelling with the passing days, especially clinical data, and research in pediatric age group. Recently, there is a new and crucial development reported recently among the COVID-19 asymptomatic children, a novel syndrome affecting asymptomatic COVID-19 children, presenting as a hyperinflammatory syndrome which is like Kawasaki disease shock syndrome. 
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) is a pediatric hyperinflammation disorder caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has now been reported from several countries the world over. Some of the clinical manifestations of MIS-C mimic Kawasaki disease (KD) shock syndrome. MIS-C develops 4–6 weeks following SARS-CoV-2 infection, and is presumably initiated by adaptive immune response. Though it has multisystem involvement, it is the cardiovascular manifestations that are most prominent. High titres of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies are seen in these patients. As this is a new disease entity, its immunopathogenesis is not fully elucidated. Whether it has some overlap with KD is still unclear.
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