PIMS-TS- (Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome – Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2)- a new challenging medical condition

Dubel Robert, Ruszel Kinga, Chodun Wiktoria, Nieradko-Iwanicka Barbara. PIMS-TS- (Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome – Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2)- a new challenging medical condition. Journal of Education, Health and Sport. 2021;11(9):11-16. eISSN 2391-8306. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/JEHS.2021.11.09.001 https://apcz.umk.pl/czasopisma/index.php/JEHS/article/view/JEHS.2021.11.09.001 https://zenodo.org/record/5380419 The journal has had 5 points in Ministry of Science and Higher Education parametric evaluation. § 8. 2) and § 12. 1. 2) 22.02.2019. © The Authors 2021; This article is published with open access at Licensee Open Journal Systems of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland Open Access. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author (s) and source are credited. This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non commercial license Share alike. (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) which permits unrestricted, non commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited. The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper. Received: 15.08.2021. Revised: 15.08.2021. Accepted: 28.08.2021. PIMS-TS- (Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome – Temporally Associated with SARS-CoV-2)- a new challenging medical condition Robert Dubel1, Kinga Ruszel1, Wiktoria Chodun1, Barbara Nieradko-Iwanicka2 1Students’ Scientific Association at The Chair and Department of Hygiene, Medical University of Lublin 2Chair and Department of Hygiene, Medical University of Lublin Abstract: At the beginning of pandemic of SARS-CoV-2 children were thought to go through COVID 19 in a definitely milder way than adults, in most cases even asymptomatically. However, even though the period of infection in pediatric patients is benign, SARS-CoV-2 found a way to take its toll on children’s health. Here comes PIMS-TS: Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome - temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) [ICD-10: U 10.9]. Since the global pandemic of COVID-19 is still on the go, for over a year now, SARS-CoV-2 tends to constantly mutate and affect children at increasingly young age either by oligosymptomatic respiratory viral infection, or more distant SARS-CoV-2-related medical condition- PIMS-TS. Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome - temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS), or Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) as it’s also called, is a rare systemic disease manifested by persistent fever and extreme inflammatory reaction following exposure to SARS-CoV-2, 2-4 weeks before the symptoms occur. It’s a brand new medical condition, described for the first time in May 2020. PIMS-TS affects 1 out of 1000 children infected with SARS-CoV-2 and can lead to very dangerous cardiological complications such as acute pancarditis, shock or aneurysms of coronary arteries. Efficient treatment performed in the accurate time and hospitalization in ICU allow to overcome PIMS-TS in the prevalent number of patients and get better in a few days. Mortality of PIMS-TS ranges from 1,5% to 2% of all cases. Key words: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; PIMS-TS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE