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Editor, Senior Moderator
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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Murat Tanyildiz[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fatih Erbey[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mehmet Tasdemir[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Aydın Celikyurt[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Emel Gonen[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Ilmay Bilge[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
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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).
. 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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Murat Tanyildiz[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fatih Erbey[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mehmet Tasdemir[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Aydın Celikyurt[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Emel Gonen[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Ilmay Bilge[SUP] 7 [/SUP]
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).