HDIVC21: Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): A Serious Post-infectious Disease Associated with COVID-19 Infection in Children, George C. Fogg, MD, PhD

Speaker

George C. Fogg, MD, PhD

Description

The COVID-19 pandemic has had serious health and economic consequences worldwide. Fortunately, the pediatric population has usually shown a much milder disease process associated with infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Children infected with the virus generally have had milder symptoms, less hospitalizations and far fewer deaths associated with the acute infection itself. Early in the pandemic a serious post-infectious disease that usually occurs weeks after COVID-19 infection was recognized in children and those affected often have serious pathology associated by a massive inflammatory response. This disease was named Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) and those children with this disease usually need hospitalization, pediatric intensive unit care and may die from this disease process.

This presentation will help attendees understand the epidemiology of COVID-19 disease in the pediatric population and the biology behind MIS-C disease and learn ways to reduce SARS-CoV-2 spread in the community.