Among other findings, the study demonstrated that patients from a BAME background were disproportionally affected, with almost a third of patients being from a black background. What increases the risk of PIMS-TS?ĭr Bautista, along with our consultant paediatric cardiologist Professor Alain Fraissé, recently led the world’s largest study on PIMS-TS across 13 countries to better understand the condition and why it is caused. We are still learning about this condition, but what we do know is that the earlier a patient is admitted to hospital the better their outcomes are likely to be,” says Dr Bautista. “It is important that parents take their children to A&E as soon as possible if they suspect PIMS-TS.
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Infected with COVID-19 in the previous 4-6 weeks or contact with an infected person.“We most often see PIMS-TS in those aged 8 to 15 and unfortunately its symptoms can be confused with other conditions such as appendicitis, which is also common in this age group,” explains Dr Carles Bautista, consultant paediatric and interventional cardiologist at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Specialist Care. This condition was later termed 'paediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome’ – or ‘PIMS-TS’ for short, a potentially fatal outcome of COVID-19 infection in children and teenagers. Their immune systems were overreacting to the virus leading to severe inflammation that affected multiple organs of their bodies, including their hearts.
It would later emerge that, like other children and teenagers across the world, they were affected by a rare complication of COVID-19 infection. A rare condition requiring urgent careĭuring the UK’s first lockdown in 2020, a number of teenagers were admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit at Evelina London Children’s Hospital that were extremely unwell with no signs of an infection. One of our world-leading paediatric cardiologists provides all the information parents need to know about this condition. Children and teenagers usually experience mild or no symptoms with COVID-19 infection, but rarely it can trigger ‘PIMS-TS’ – a severe and potentially fatal inflammatory condition that requires urgent care.