(ANSA) - FLORENCE, NOV 24 - He risked his life for the complications caused by the Coronavirus infection: the work of a multidisciplinary team of the Meyer pediatric hospital in Florence saved a twelve-year-old.
Now, after 14 days in intensive care and a stay in pediatrics, the little one has returned home.
This was announced by the hospital itself, explaining that it is the first time, since the beginning of the pandemic, that the Meyer doctors have found themselves "facing a case of this gravity. Usually, in fact, the virus affects children and adolescents more mildly. twelve years old, on the other hand, the infection caused a very serious inflammatory picture, which in technical terms is defined as Pims: a syndrome of multi-systemic inflammation related to the Sars-CoV-2 infection identified in the pediatric age ".
Pims, explains Meyer, is "an inflammatory syndrome, caused by a veritable storm of cytokines, proteins that regulate the body's immune response and which are responsible for one of the most feared complications of this infection. A completely unpredictable and unpredictable condition. unexpected, also because the patient did not suffer from any previous pathology ".
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