Childhood Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome - A New Challenge in the Pandemic

The recognition and description of new diseases often resemble the parable of the blind men and the elephant, with each declaring that the part of the beast they have touched fully defines it. As the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic has evolved, case reports have appeared describing children with unusual febrile illnesses that have features of Kawasaki's disease,(1)toxic shock syndrome,(2)acute abdominal conditions, and encephalopathy, along with other reports of children with fever, elevated inflammatory markers, and multisystem involvement.(3-5)It is now apparent that these reports were describing different clinical presentations of a new childhood inflammatory disorder. A case . . .