Детские инфекции (Москва) (Jul 2021)

Clinical case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome development in a child with new coronavirus infection

  • Yu. B. Belan,
  • E. A. Gashina,
  • E. F. Lobova,
  • E. P. Shefer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22627/2072-8107-2021-20-2-60-63
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 20, no. 2
pp. 60 – 63

Abstract

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Objective: The article deals with a clinical case of new coronavirus infection in a 1 5-year-old child who was receiving treatment in an infectious diseases hospital of City Children's Clinical Hospital №3 during the period from 1 0 October to 1 December 2020.Materials and methods. The diagnosis was confirmed through nasal swabs examination for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 RNA using PCR and SARS-CoV-2 IgM detection through ELISA.Results. The main feature of the infection course in the present patient was multisystem inflammatory syndrome development with long-term fever, maculopapular rash and multisystemic lesions including bilateral pneumonia, acute carditis and polyserositis.

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