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Cureus
. 2020 Nov 28;12(11):e11750.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.11750.
Adult Inflammatory Multi-System Syndrome Mimicking Kawasaki Disease in a Patient With COVID-19
Boniface Malangu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Javier A Quintero[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Eugenio M Capitle[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
We describe a 46-year-old male with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who presented as a Kawasaki-like syndrome with features including prolonged fever, bilateral conjunctivitis, oral mucosal swelling, diffuse erythematous rash, cervical and hilar lymphadenopathy, as well as cardiovascular complications and multi-organ failure. There are several reports of a similar clinical entity mimicking Kawasaki disease (KD) in the pediatric population, which has been termed Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) by the Royal College of Pediatric and Child Health. To our knowledge, to date, there has been only one case report of COVID-19 presenting as KD in an adult patient.
Keywords: kawasaki disease (kd); pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome; sars-cov-2 and covid-19.
. 2020 Nov 28;12(11):e11750.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.11750.
Adult Inflammatory Multi-System Syndrome Mimicking Kawasaki Disease in a Patient With COVID-19
Boniface Malangu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Javier A Quintero[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Eugenio M Capitle[SUP] 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33403180
- PMCID: PMC7773524
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.11750
Abstract
We describe a 46-year-old male with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection who presented as a Kawasaki-like syndrome with features including prolonged fever, bilateral conjunctivitis, oral mucosal swelling, diffuse erythematous rash, cervical and hilar lymphadenopathy, as well as cardiovascular complications and multi-organ failure. There are several reports of a similar clinical entity mimicking Kawasaki disease (KD) in the pediatric population, which has been termed Pediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) by the Royal College of Pediatric and Child Health. To our knowledge, to date, there has been only one case report of COVID-19 presenting as KD in an adult patient.
Keywords: kawasaki disease (kd); pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome; sars-cov-2 and covid-19.