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Due to the limited information available on this rare new diagnosis, clinical management has been largely based on expert opinion, including knowledge acquired from treating Kawasaki disease and other systemic inflammatory disorders of childhood, in addition to experience with COVID-19 in adults. [15]
[15] [18] [19] Overall, Children are associated with lower mortality rates than other age groups, when infected with COVID-19. [12] Some children who become infected develop a rare condition known as MIS-C, short for "multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children". [20] This causes a persistent fever and extreme inflammation.
Almost any part of the eye can give important clues to the diagnosis of systemic diseases. Signs of a systemic disease may be evident on the outer surface of the eye (eyelids, conjunctiva and cornea), middle of the eye and at the back of the eye (retina)." [4] Since 500 B.C., some researchers have believed that the physical condition of the ...
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Coronavirus diseases are caused by viruses in the coronavirus subfamily, a group of related RNA viruses that cause diseases in mammals and birds. In humans and birds, the group of viruses cause respiratory tract infections that can range from mild to lethal.
Scanning electron micrograph of SARS virions. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is the disease caused by SARS-CoV-1. It causes an often severe illness and is marked initially by systemic symptoms of muscle pain, headache, and fever, followed in 2–14 days by the onset of respiratory symptoms, [13] mainly cough, dyspnea, and pneumonia.
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Research published in 2005 by Esper, et al. suggested an association of HCoV-NL63 infection with Kawasaki disease, a systemic vasculitis in childhood that may result in aneurysms of the coronary arteries. [23] In the developed world, Kawasaki disease is the most common cause of acquired heart disease in children. [24]