A Case of Measles Initially Diagnosed as MIS-C in the COVID-19 Pandemics COVID-19 Pandemisinde MİS-C ile Karışan Bir Kızamık Olgusu


Lüleyap D., Anıl A. B., Küllüoğlu P., Konca Ç., Uyanık F. G., Üstündağ G., ...Daha Fazla

Journal of Pediatric Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine(Turkey), cilt.10, sa.1, ss.57-61, 2023 (Scopus, TRDizin)

Özet

Fever and rash are a common symptom combination in children. Etiological studies are carried out primarily for the most common diseases. For this reason, in the period of the new Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, especially COVID-19-related multi-inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) comes to mind in children with this combination. Measles infection was detected in an 18-month-old Syrian girl who was hospitalized with the diagnosis of fever, conjunctivitis, pneumonia, maculopapular rash during the COVID-19 pandemic period. The case died with pneumonia and septic shock. With this case, we wanted to emphasize that during the COVID-19 pandemic, and measles should also be considered in the differential diagnosis of MIS-C in cases with fever, maculopapular rash and conjunctivitis.