Doctors find Australia’s first case of COVID-19 Kawasaki-like disease
Paediatric infectious diseases physician Professor David Burgner says there might be more children with the rare complication
Victorian doctors have identified Australia’s first probable case of Kawasaki-like disease in a child diagnosed with COVID-19.
On Thursday, Victorian health officials alerted health professionals that a small number of possible cases had been identified, including through a national surveillance program.
The condition, in which children who have apparently recovered from COVID-19 develop severe inflammation weeks later, has been dubbed paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS).
International experience suggests the average age of patients developing PIMS-TS is nine years, with boys and children from non-Anglo backgrounds at higher risk.
