The Triad of COVID-19 in Children: Acute COVID-19, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome, and Long COVID-Part II

Pediatr Ann. 2025 Jan;54(1):e40-e44. doi: 10.3928/19382359-20241106-01. Epub 2025 Jan 1.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is now known to be caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2, has been a public health threat since early 2020 and has affected millions of people worldwide. Many studies have now shown that this virus exhibits a milder infection in children compared to adults. Acute COVID-19 infection, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), and long COVID have been recently well-established in the pediatric population with a myriad of systemic manifestations. This section of the review will focus on the following systems-neurology, psychiatry, endocrinology, hematology, and oncology-under three broad lenses, such as acute COVID-19, MIS-C, and long COVID. [Pediatr Ann. 2025;54(1):e40-e44.].

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19* / complications
  • Child
  • Humans
  • Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome* / diagnosis
  • Systemic Inflammatory Response Syndrome* / physiopathology

Supplementary concepts

  • pediatric multisystem inflammatory disease, COVID-19 related