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Laredo children s COVID clinic opening for serious cases
Valerie Godines, Laredo Morning Times
Feb. 9, 2021
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A pediatric cardiologist is offering a children’s COVID-19 clinic in Laredo to treat rare cases of young kids who suffer serious symptoms weeks after a bout with the virus.
The clinic, located in Dr. Claire Cigarroa’s office, opens Wednesday and focuses on Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C), which as of now is rare.
But Cigarroa wants to spread an education campaign so pediatricians and parents know about the syndrome, which causes certain organs of the body such as the heart to become inflamed. It can lead to death, but a child is more likely to heal when MIS-C is caught early and treated with medication, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website.