A study conducted at the Robert Debré Hospital shows a link between Kawasaki disease and Covid-19. During the pandemic, the number of hospitalizations increased
A study conducted at the Robert Debré Hospital shows a link between Kawasaki disease and Covid-19. During the pandemic, hospitalizations increased by 497%.
The link between the new coronavirus and Kawasaki disease in children “seems quite clear,” according to a study conducted by the general pediatrics department of the Robert Debré Hospital in Paris. The results of this study, published on Monday, show that hospital admissions of children affected by Kawasaki disease increased by almost 500% during the Covid-19 epidemic.
“We were able to carry out a study that for fifteen years tried to assess the incidence of Kawasaki disease in children hospitalized at Robert Debré,” said Albert Faye, head of the general pediatrics department at Robert Debré, for Franceinfo. Debré Hospital. “We were able to highlight a significant increase in the frequency of this disease during the Covid-19 pandemic.” In April 2020, two weeks after the peak of the Covid-19 epidemic, the frequency of hospital admissions due to Kawasaki disease increased by 497%, according to the study.
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This childhood disease is rare and mostly affects children under the age of 5. It’s an inflammatory disease that affects the small blood vessels, which can have complications at the level of the coronary arteries,” says Albert Faye. This translates to “fever, significant inflammation at the blood level, a specific eruption, a child who is very tired, edema in the extremities.” It is usually quite normal, with immunoglobulin.
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Sars coronavirus causes, however, more severe forms of this disease, with “disorder of the digestive system, abdominal pain”. Inflammation is “a little more important than in classic disease”, with damage at the level of the heart, inflammation of the heart muscle (myocarditis) and inflammation of the pericardium (pericarditis), inflammation is “more common than in Kawasaki disease”, the classic explains to this Franceinfo expert.
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These severe forms, associated with Covid-19, however, remain very rare,” warns Albert Faye. If a child is very tired, has a high body temperature (4 or 5 days of fever), indigestion, a rash appears, “it must lead to view,” says the pediatrician. According to this study, Kawa-Covid-19, the Kawasaki disease associated with Covid-19, is a “specific entity in SARS-Cov-2,” which requires stronger therapeutic management in some patients.
Date of update: July 21, 2020, 10:58 am
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Source: newstars.edu.vn