Multisystem inflammatory syndrome

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome may refer to:

• Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (also known as 'paediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome', or 'paediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome' - 'PIMS'), a rare life-threatening illness resembling Kawasaki disease that has been observed following exposure to the virus responsible for COVID-19;^[1][2][3] while a similar syndrome has also been reported in adults.^[4]

• Kawasaki disease, a rare disease of unknown origin that affects young children, in which blood vessels become inflamed throughout the body.^[5]
• Systemic inflammatory response syndrome, inflammation affecting the whole body in response to an infectious or noninfectious insult.^[6]
• Neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disease, a rare genetic autoinflammatory disease which causes uncontrolled systemic inflammation from early infancy.^[7]