Journal Article

Surveillance of COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, South Korea

Kim, Eun-Jin, Lee, Hyunju, Choe, Young June, Choi, Eun Hwa, Park, June Dong, Lee, Sang Won, Kwak, Ji Hee, Choi, Jong Woon, Kim, Yae-Jean, Eun, Byung Wook, Kim, Young A., Eun, Lucy Youngmin, Lee, Joon Kee, Park, Young Joon, Gwack, Jin, Lee, Hyuk Min, Kim, Yeo Hyang, Kim, Yun-Kyung

2021

Overview

A concerning development during the coronavirus disease pandemic has been multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Reports of this condition in East Asia have been limited. In South Korea, 3 cases were reported to the national surveillance system for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. All case-patients were hospitalized and survived with no major disease sequelae.

• Publisher: U.S. National Center for Infectious Diseases,Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Subject: Abdomen / Adolescent / Child / Coronary vessels / Coronavirus disease / Coronaviruses / COVID-19 / COVID-19 - blood / COVID-19 - complications / COVID-19 - diagnosis / COVID-19 - epidemiology / COVID-19 - physiopathology / COVID-19 - therapy / COVID-19 diagnostic tests / Demographic aspects / Diagnosis, Differential / Diarrhea - diagnosis / Diarrhea - virology / Disease control / Disease prevention / Disease transmission / Dispatch / Epidemics / Epidemiology / Exanthema - diagnosis / Exanthema - etiology / Female / Health surveillance / Hospitalization / Humans / Hypotension / Infections / Infectious diseases / inflammation / Kawasaki disease / Leukocytosis - diagnosis / Leukocytosis - etiology / Male / Methods / Mitral Valve Insufficiency - diagnosis / Mitral Valve Insufficiency - etiology / multisystem inflammatory syndrome / Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children / Pandemics / pediatric / Pediatrics / Pleural Effusion - diagnosis / Pleural Effusion - etiology / Public health / Republic of Korea - epidemiology / SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification / SARS-CoV-2 - pathogenicity / Sentinel health events / Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 / Surveillance of COVID-19–Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, South Korea / Systematic review / Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - blood / Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - diagnosis / Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - physiopathology / Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome - therapy / Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods / Treatment Outcome / Ultrasonography - methods / Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - diagnosis / Ventricular Dysfunction, Left - etiology