Article · Volume 14, Issue 4 · pp. 449–450
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults (MIS-A): A Case Report
Nikhil Batra1, Navneet Kaur2
- 1Department of General Medicine, Maharishi Markandeshwar Institute of Medical Science and Research, Ambala, Haryana, INDIA.
- 2University Institute of Pharma Sciences, Chandigarh University, Mohali, Punjab, INDIA.
Abstract
The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has reverberated into calamitous illness globally, even though children have been comparatively reprieved. Coronavirus-associated multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) has been outlined in children (MIS-C) and hardly ever in adults (MIS-A) in as much as April and June 2020, sequentially. Whilst the rudimentary immunopathology is not well demarcated, adaptive immunity is contemplated to be blameworthy. We report a case of Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children lie illness – MIS-A who presented with fever, pain abdomen, weakness and low oxygen saturation in an emergency. Truenat for SARS-CoV-2 came out negative but covid serology IGG came positive. The clinical presentation of the patient was in maintained with the clinically accepted definition of MIS-A.
Keywords: Coronavirus; Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults; Severe acute respiratory syndrome
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