Rady Re-Evaluating Recent Kawasaki Cases For New Pediatric Illness Tied To Coronavirus

San Diego’s Children’s Hospital is reviewing patients it recently treated for Kawasaki disease to determine if they were actually suffering from a similar but rare new illness connected to the novel coronavirus.

Doctors around the world, often in regions hit hardest by the pandemic, have reported cases of a pediatric inflammatory illness that can affect multiple organs, including the heart. The condition is like Kawasaki disease, which causes inflammation of the blood vessels but is appearing in children who have had some form of exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.