Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging . Thoracic Imaging Findings of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19: What Radiologists Need to Know Now

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Radiol Cardiothorac Imaging


. 2020 Jul 30;2(4):e200346.
doi: 10.1148/ryct.2020200346. eCollection 2020 Aug.
Thoracic Imaging Findings of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Associated with COVID-19: What Radiologists Need to Know Now


Abbey J Winant ¹ , Einat Blumfield ¹ , Mark C Liszewski ¹ , Jessica Kurian ¹ , Alexandra M Foust ¹ , Edward Y Lee ¹



Affiliations

• PMID: 33778614
• PMCID: PMC7397565
• DOI: 10.1148/ryct.2020200346

Abstract

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic is an ongoing public health emergency, with over 4 million confirmed cases worldwide. Due to the novel nature of this coronavirus and our evolving understanding of its pathophysiology, there is continued uncertainty surrounding diagnosis and management of COVID-19, especially in pediatric patients. In addition, a new febrile hyperinflammatory Kawasaki-like syndrome (also known as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, or MIS-C) has emerged in pediatric patients with temporal association to COVID-19 infection. This review article aims to provide an up-to-date review of the clinical and imaging findings of pediatric MIS-C associated with COVID-19, compared with typical acute pediatric COVID-19 infection, with an emphasis on thoracic imaging findings. Supplemental material is available for this article. ? RSNA, 2020.