Multisystem inflammatory disease in kids related to COVID-19

The NHS England and the U.K.’s Paediatric Intensive Care Society are telling clinicians to look out for children presenting with overlapping signs of toxic shock syndrome and atypical Kawasaki Disease with blood work consistent with COVID-19 (i.e., high C-reactive protein, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and ferritin). NHS has reported a small number of cases. Some tested positive for COVID-19, while others did not. Common features have included abdominal pain, other gastrointestinal symptoms, and cardiac inflammation with elevated troponin and pro-B-type natriuretic peptide levels.

Paediatric Intensive Care Society statement on multisystem inflammatory disease in kids