Cardiac dysfunction and thrombocytopenia-associated multiple organ failure inflammation phenotype in a severe paediatric case of COVID-19

A 16-year-old male with chromosome 18q deletion and well controlled epilepsy presented to the Children's National Hospital (Washington, DC, USA) with haemodynamic shock after 4 days of fever and one generalised seizure at home. Although he had no respiratory symptoms, his mother was ill with a cough. Upon arrival (hospital day 0), he was intubated and resuscitated with intravenous crystalloid fluids (>40 mL/kg), an intravenous epinephrine...