COVID-19 associated arterial ischaemic stroke and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children: a case report

A 9-year-old girl was admitted to the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with a history of high-grade fever for 14 days, throbbing frontal headache, vomiting, and progressive weakness on the right side of her body for 5 days. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) RNA was detected on nasopharyngeal swab by RT-PCR on presentation. On admission to the PICU (day 1), she had…

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