J Trop Pediatr . Macrophage Activation Syndrome in a Child with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Secondary to SARS-CoV-2

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J Trop Pediatr


. 2021 May 24;fmab049.
doi: 10.1093/tropej/fmab049. Online ahead of print.
Macrophage Activation Syndrome in a Child with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Secondary to SARS-CoV-2


Hacer Akturk ¹ , Murat Tanyildiz ² , Fatih Erbey ³ , Mehmet Tasdemir ⁴ , Aydın Celikyurt ⁵ , Emel Gonen ⁶ , Ilmay Bilge ⁷



Affiliations

• PMID: 34028559
• DOI: 10.1093/tropej/fmab049

Abstract

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused a pandemic affecting many countries and millions of people. Physicians has encountered some rare and challenging cases related to SARS-CoV-2, a novel virus with still many unknowns. In order to share our experience of a such clinical picture, we present here a child with SARS-CoV-2 induced macrophage activation syndrome in the setting of juvenile idiopathic arthritis.

Keywords: Macrophage Activation Syndrome (MAS); Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2); juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA); secondary haemophagocytic lymphohistocytosis (sHLH).