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50% of children with inflammatory syndrome after Covid have neurological signs

Half of the children who developed multisystem inflammatory syndrome children, associated with Covid-19, had neurological symptoms or signs when they entered hospital, new research indicates. Experts found that patients with Paediatric Inflammatory Multisystem Syndrome Temporally associated with Sars-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS) presented with new symptoms involving both the central and peripheral nervous systems, in the absence of respiratory symptoms. Neurological symptoms were seen more frequently in those with more severe disease. The symptoms included headaches, encephalopathy – disease or damage to the brain, and hallucinations. Children with neurological symptoms were more likely to need a ventilator and drugs to help stabilise their blood circulation than the children without neurologic symptoms, according to the study which will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 73rd Annual Meeting.

New-Onset Neuro Symptoms Common in Kids With MIS-C

email article Half of pediatric patients presenting with multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), a severe disorder associated with COVID-19, developed new-onset neurologic symptoms, a single-center British study showed. Of 46 MIS-C patients presenting to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London between April 4 and Sept. 1, 2020, 24 (52.2%) had new neurologic involvement, reported Omar Abdel-Mannan, MD, of University College London, in an abstract released in advance of the American Academy of Neurology annual meeting. The findings will be presented as part of the meeting s Emerging Science program on April 18. Headache and encephalopathy were the most common neurologic symptoms. With this new inflammatory syndrome that develops after children are infected with the coronavirus, we are still learning how the syndrome affects children and what we need to watch out for, Abdel-Mannan said in a statement. We found that many children experienced neurologic symptoms

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