SARS-CoV-2-induced multisystem inflammatory syndrome in a young adult: Case report

We describe a case of a previous healthy 20-year-old male athlete who presented with an atypical clinical profile with multiorgan involvement within five weeks after confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggestive for multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS); MIS is a rare, potentially life-threatening complication associated with SARS-CoV-2. MIS shares similar clinical features compatible with several overlapping lifethreatening hyperinflammatory syndromes, such as incomplete Kawasaki Disease (KD) and toxic shock syndrome (TSS) associated to a cytokine storm suggestive of a macrophage activation syndrome (MAS) without fulfilling the criteria for hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH), that may create a great challenge to distinguish between them. MIS should promptly be considered and treated, as uncontrolled MIS has a high mortality. In MIS cardiac involvement, heart failure may present as an additional problem, especially because volume loading is advised in accordance with proposed therapy. Carefully monitoring of the respiratory and cardiac status in response of resuscitation is therefore warranted.
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Bibliographic Details
Subjects:
Notations:biological and medical sciences junior sports
Tagging:Coronavirus
Published in:SN Comprehensive Clinical Medicine
Language:English
Published: 2021
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s42399-021-00998-x
Volume:3
Pages:1773-1779
Document types:article
Level:advanced