Affiliation:
1. Department of Paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition, Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Edinburgh, Uk
2. Child Life and Health, College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Abstract
Abstract
Paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 [PIMS-TS] is a newly described condition. It has a spectrum of presentations proposed to occur as part of a post-infectious immune response. We report the first case of PIMS-TS in a child on established anti-tumour necrosis factor alpha [anti-TNFα] therapy; a 10 year-old girl with ulcerative colitis treated with infliximab. The patient had 6 weeks of daily fever with mucocutaneous, gastrointestinal, renal, and haematological involvement. Biomarkers of hyperinflammation were present including: hyperferritinaemia [up to 691 µ/L; normal 15–80 µg/L], C-reactive protein [CRP] [ >100mg/L for >10 days, normal 0–5 mg/L], erythrocyte sedimentation rate [ESR] consistently >100mm/h [normal 0–15 mm/h], raised white cell count with neutrophilia, elevated D-dimer and lactate dehydrogenase [LDH], anaemia and Mott cells on bone marrow analysis. Extensive investigations for alternative diagnoses for pyrexia of unknown origin [PUO] were negative. The condition was refractory to treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin [IVIG] but improved within 24 h of high-dose methylprednisolone. Infliximab treatment followed and the patient has remained well at follow-up. Polymerase chain reaction [PCR] and serology for SARS-CoV-2 were negative. Current series report such negative findings in up to half of cases. The patient experienced a milder clinical phenotype without cardiac involvement, shock, or organ failure. Accepting the wide spectrum of PIMS-TS presentations, it is possible that previous anti-TNFα therapy may have attenuated the disease course. Given the uncertainty around therapeutic strategies for PIMS-TS, this case supports the need for further investigation into continuing infliximab as a treatment option for the condition.
Funder
Edinburgh Children’s Hospital Charity-Catherine McEwan Foundation Research Fellowship
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Gastroenterology,General Medicine
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