Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) is an emerging condition associated with COVID-19. Over the past several weeks, cases of MIS-C have been seen across the country, including in Utah. Experts in infectious disease, cardiology, rheumatology and pediatric critical care from University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital are available to discuss the multi-faceted disease and what they are seeing. See this video to watch these experts talk about the following:
Andrew Pavia, MD, Pediatric Infectious Disease, University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital
“At this point it appears to be quite rare but parents should be attuned to sickness in their child and if your child has prolonged fever, severe abdominal pain with or without a rash, red eyes, you need to contact your health care provider.”
“Many of the patients that have been described so far have developed severe disease and have often ended up in the intensive care unit because of the involvement of the heart muscle and shock, that is low blood pressure. What we’re beginning to learn is that there is a broader range of manifestations and not all the kids are severely ill.”
- Outlook in the U.S. and throughout the world
- Most common symptoms
- Similarities and difference between MIS-C and Kawasaki disease
- What parents should know
- Remaining questions
Dongngan Truong, MD, Pediatric Cardiology, University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital
“One of the most common heart findings we’re seeing is that the muscle of the heart is affected, so the squeeze of heart is affected during disease.”
- Inflammation of heart muscle, coronary artery and other heart abnormalities that have been seen with MIS-C
- Course of treatment
Jill Sweney, MD, Pediatric Critical Care, University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital
“It is somewhat a diagnosis of exclusion of common things that make a child ill. There is a high amount of inflammation in the body so we check a lot of inflammatory markers as well as checking for a current or serologic evidence of a Covid infection.”
- Symptoms and presentation
- Cases at U of U Health/Primary Children’s Hospital
- Testing and diagnosis
Erin Treemarcki, DO, Pediatric Rheumatology, University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital
“Some of the symptoms we see are typical of Macrophage activation syndrome which is typical of a certain type of childhood arthritis.”
- Inflammatory response
- Course of treatment
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