CLINICAL-EPIDEMIOLOGICAL RELATION BETWEEN SARS-COV-2 AND KAWASAKI DISEASE: AN INTEGRATIVE LITERATURE.

Autor: Santos BSD; Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brazil., Santos FSD; Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil., Ribeiro ER; Faculdades Pequeno Príncipe, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Jazyk: Portuguese; English
Zdroj: Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo [Rev Paul Pediatr] 2021; Vol. 39, pp. e2020217. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Aug 31.
DOI: 10.1590/1984-0462/2021/39/2020217
Abstrakt: Objective: To analyze the current scientific literature to document, in an integrative review, the main findings that correlate Kawasaki disease (KD) to COVID-19.
Data Sources: The search was carried out in June 2020 in the following databases: Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde (BVS), periódico da CAPES and U.S National Library of Medicine (PubMed). The combination of descriptors used was [(COVID-19 OR SARS-CoV-2) AND (Kawasaki disease)], and the inclusion criteria stipulated were studies published from January 2019 to June 2020, without restriction of language or location, and available online in full. News, editorials, comments, and letters, as well as duplicates and articles that did not answer the guiding question were excluded.
Data Synthesis: A total of 97 articles were identified, of which seven comprised this review. The association of KD to the new coronavirus appears to trigger a severe clinical condition of vasculitis. Different from the usual, in this inflammatory syndrome, patients are older, and prevalence is higher in children from African or Caribbean ancestry; clinical and laboratory manifestations are also atypical, with a predominance of abdominal complaints and exaggerated elevation of inflammatory markers. In addition, there was a greater report of rare complications and greater resistance to the recommended treatment for KD.
Conclusions: Pediatric COVID-19 and its potential association to severe KD, still unfamiliar to health professionals, reinforces the importance of testing patients with vasculitis for the new coronavirus and the need to wage high surveillance and preparation of the health system during the current pandemic.
Databáze: MEDLINE