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Background: A multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is associated with coronavirus disease 2019. The New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) established active, statewide surveillance to describe hospitalized patients with the syndrome.
Conclusions: The emergence of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in New York State coincided with widespread SARS-CoV-2 transmission; this hyperinflammatory syndrome with dermatologic, mucocutaneous, and gastrointestinal manifestations was associated with cardiac dysfunction.
In total, about 230 suspected cases of this new paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection (PIMS-TS) have been reported in EU/EEA countries and the UK in 2020, including two fatalities, one in the UK and one in France. These cases are being further investigated. So far, epidemiological studies have shown that children appear to be less affected by COVID-19. Only 2.1% of all laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases reported to The European Surveillance System (TESSy) were in the age group between 0 and 14 years of age.
To date, an association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and this new clinical entity of multisystem inflammation has not yet been established, although an association appears plausible. At current, the risk is assessed as follows:
Question How do the characteristics and outcomes of children and adolescents with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) compare with severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)?
Any child sick enough to warrant admission for fever, abdominal pain, diarrhea and/or organ dysfunction in whom MIS-C is suspected should be cared for in a hospital with tertiary pediatric/cardiac intensive care units. Although decisions about additional testing will be made by the multidisciplinary team managing the patient, pediatricians can prepare families for an expanded laboratory and cardiac workup that may include:
Clinicians who suspect MIS-C in a child should use a multidisciplinary approach involving many pediatric specialists, which may include but is not limited to cardiology, infectious disease, immunology, hematology, rheumatology, hospital medicine, emergency medicine and critical care, to guide individual patient treatment. There are 3 to 4 sub-types of MIS-C that may require slightly different management based on evolution of symptoms and laboratory values. Optimal treatment for a patient with MIS-C is not known; however, it is best determined by the multidisciplinary clinical team. The following interventions have been used:
American College of Rheumatology. Clinical guidance for pediatric patients with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with SARS-CoV-2 and hyperinflammation in COVID-19. Available at: -COVID-19-Clinical-Guidance-Summary-MIS-C-Hyperinflammation.pdf
Whitaker E, Bamford A, Kenny J, et al. Clinical characteristics of 58 children with a pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2. JAMA. Published online June 8, 2020. doi:10.1001/jama.2020.10369. Available at:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention define multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) as a condition where different body parts can become inflamed, including the heart, lungs, kidneys, brain, skin, eyes, or gastrointestinal organs. The cause of MIS-C is not yet known, but many children who develop MIS-C previously had COVID-19.
During the SARS-CoV-2-associated infection (COVID-19), pandemic initial reports suggested relative sparing of children inversely related to their age. Children and neonates have a decreased incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection, and if infected they manifested a less severe phenotype, in part due to enhanced innate immune response. However, a multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) or paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 emerged involving coronary artery aneurysms, cardiac dysfunction, and multiorgan inflammatory manifestations. MIS-C has many similarities to Kawasaki disease and other inflammatory conditions and may fit within a spectrum of inflammatory conditions based on immunological results. More recently neonates born to mothers with SARS-CoV-2 infection during pregnancy demonstrated evidence of a multisystem inflammatory syndrome with raised inflammatory markers and multiorgan, especially cardiac dysfunction that has been described as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in neonates (MIS-N). However, there is a variation in definitions and management algorithms for MIS-C and MIS-N. Further understanding of baseline immunological responses to allow stratification of patient groups and accurate diagnosis will aid prognostication, and inform optimal immunomodulatory therapies.
Evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection (current or recent) in the setting of multiple organ system involvement (commonly cardiac, gastrointestinal and mucocutaneous) and elevated inflammatory markers may suggest a diagnosis of MIS-C. Racial and ethnic distribution, risk of ICU admission, management options, and mortality are shown. Data accessed on December 25, 2021. Image courtesy Satyan Lakshminrusimha.
Clinical features (Fig. 3) of MIS-C in neonates and MIS-N range from cardiovascular (myocarditis, coronary arterial dilation, and aneurysms, hypotension, ventricular dysfunction, intracardiac thrombosis), skin rash (vasculitis or due to ischemia), gastrointestinal signs resembling necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), respiratory distress, persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn, neurological signs (hypotonia, lethargy seizures or hypertonia), and conjunctival involvement.11,12,13,14,15,35,37,42,52,11,53 These reports suggest that neonatal multisystem inflammatory presentation is more likely to occur in areas where COVID-19 is highly prevalent among pregnant mothers and vaccination rates are low. Pawar et al., More et al., and Shaiba et al. reported five deaths presumably from MIS-N due to cardiac dysfunction/shock, multiorgan failure, or NEC accounting for a mortality of approximately 10% in some case series.11,15,54
Maternal infection during pregnancy can be asymptomatic or symptomatic. We speculate that transplacental transfer of antibodies following an autoimmune response in the mother to fetus elicits an autoimmune response in the neonate. This condition is different from early SARS-CoV-2 infection in the neonate. The autoimmune response in the neonate is followed by a multisystem inflammatory response. Typical organ systems involved, and clinical features are shown. Copyright Satyan Lakshminrusimha (adapted from Sankaran et al.7). Image courtesy Satyan Lakshminrusimha.
In response to a SARS-CoV-2 infection, maternal innate immune system mounts the initial response. Subsequently, maternal adaptive immune response is triggered resulting in formation of antibodies. Antibodies directed against pathogenic areas of the SARS-CoV-2 virus (such as spike protein) are protective (green background). Transplacental transfer of IgG antibodies, particularly those directed toward neonatal autoantigens may be responsible for cytokine release, proinflammatory, and prothrombotic cascade stimulation, and multisystem inflammation (red background). Some neonates may have early acute SARS-CoV-2 infection but may not be able to mount an IgM response due to an immature adaptive immune system. The neonatal autoimmune response triggered against various tissues such as heart, gastrointestinal tract, skin, and mucosa may lead to tissue damage and manifestations of MIS-N. Image courtesy Satyan Lakshminrusimha.
Multisystem inflammation following COVID-19 is not common but can be associated with high morbidity and mortality. Neonatal presentation of MIS-C can be either due to early-onset COVID-19 in the neonate or maternal infection (MIS-N). Diagnostic criteria and treatment of neonatal multisystem inflammation secondary to COVID-19 proposed in this article are likely to evolve and readers are recommended to review updated literature.
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) or pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome (PIMS) is an emerging pediatric disease occurring after prior SARS-CoV-2 infection and is therefore strongly associated with the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention both use the name multisystem inflammatory system in children (MIS-C) for this condition, and thus so will this article, but terminology varies. The UK Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health uses the name pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with Covid-19 (abbreviated PIMS or PIMS-TS) 4.
The national consensus management pathway for paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS), published in September 2020, provides guidance for clinicians caring for children with PIMS-TS. It includes information on investigations, clinical management and discharge criteria.
MIS-C stands for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Formerly called pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome, or PIMS, it describes a new health condition seen in children who have been infected with novel coronavirus, recovered from it and later have an immune response that results in symptoms of significant levels of inflammation in organ systems. MIS-C is similar in some ways to other inflammatory conditions like Kawasaki disease and toxic shock syndrome. Children who have MIS-C generally did not have obvious symptoms when they were infected with novel coronavirus, like cough, and generally were healthy prior to developing MIS-C.
On April 27, an alert circulated from the U.K. about multi-system inflammatory disease in children with COVID-19, based on a small rise in the number of critically ill children with this illness in England. Picked up by multiple media outlets, the alert cited features of toxic shock syndrome and incomplete Kawasaki disease, with some children experiencing gastrointestinal symptoms and cardiac inflammation. The New York City health department soon followed with its own alert.
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