Methylprednisolone versus intravenous immunoglobulins in children with paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with SARS-CoV-2 (PIMS-TS): an open-label, multicentre, randomised trial

Affiliations

• ¹ Paediatric Research Center, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Pediatric Rheumatology, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ² Paediatric Research Center, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, University Children's Hospital, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany.
• ⁵ Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland, St Gallen, Switzerland.
• ⁶ Pediatric Immunology and Vaccinology Unit, Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Child, Woman and Adolescent Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁷ Pediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland; Faculty of Health Sciences and Medicine, University Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland.
• ⁸ Division of Neonatal and Pediatric Intensive Care, Department of Child, Woman and Adolescent Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁹ Department of Pediatrics, Cantonal Hospital Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Lausanne University Hospital and Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ¹¹ Division of Immunology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Children's Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ¹² Institute of Pediatrics of Southern Switzerland, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona, Switzerland; Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland.
• ¹³ Department of Community Health, Faculty of Science and Medicine, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland; Department of Paediatrics, Fribourg Hospital, Fribourg, Switzerland; Infectious Diseases Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Parkville, VIC, Australia.
• ¹⁴ Paediatric Research Center, University Children's Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Centre for Neonatal and Paediatric Infection, St George's University, London, UK.
• ¹⁵ Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Children's Research Center, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Child Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: [email protected].