Journal of Clinical Case Reports

Department of Infectious Diseases, Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Tel Aviv University, Affiliated to the Sackler School of Medicine, Israel

Publications

• Case Report   
  Post-COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in a Young Adult: A Case Report
  Author(s): Dichtwald Sara*, Paz Yoav, Dana Elad, Fredman Brian and Chowers Michal
  
  Background: Post-COVID-19 infection syndrome has been described in children, known as Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2. Clinical signs and symptoms include conjunctivitis, rash, fever, hypotension, gastrointestinal symptoms, myocarditis and coronary abnormalities. Most case reports were described in children, and there are very few case reports of Post-COVID-19 Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults (MIS-A). Case report: We describe a case of a healthy 21-years-old man with symptoms of fever, myalgia and loss of taste, followed by severe dyspnea and hypoxemia. Chest computed tomography scan revealed extensive bilateral lung infiltrates. Shock and acute kidney injury followed. Echocardiography showed severe left ventricular dysfunction. The patient was intubated and ventilated. Due to cardiogenic shock and hypoxemia, veno-arterial.. Read More»
  

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