The Characteristics of Patients With COVID-19-Associated Pediatric Vasculitis: An International, Multicenter Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

COVID-19-associated pediatric vasculitis, other than Kawasaki disease (KD)-like vasculitis in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), is very rare. This study sought to analyze the characteristics, treatment, and outcomes in patients with COVID-19-associated pediatric vasculitis (excluding KD-like vasculitis in MIS-C).

Methods

The inclusion criteria were as follows: 1) age <18 years at vasculitis onset; 2) evidence of vasculitis; 3) evidence of SARS-CoV-2 exposure; and 4) ≤3 months between SARS-CoV-2 exposure and vasculitis onset. Patients with MIS-C were excluded. The features of the subset of patients in our cohort who had COVID-19-associated pediatric IgA vasculitis/Henoch Schönlein purpura (IgAV/HSP) were compared against a pre-pandemic cohort of

SUBMITTER: Batu ED 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9877558 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature