Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of children with sars-cov-2 infection admitted to a peruvian hospital
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Authors
Rodríguez-Portilla, RicardoLlaque-Quiroz, Patricia
Guerra-Ríos, Claudia
Cieza-Yamunaqué, Liliana Paola
Coila-Paricahua, Edgar Juan
Baique-Sánchez, Pedro Michael
Pinedo-Torres, Isabel
Issue Date
2021-04-01Keywords
Children (source: MeSH NLM)Critical Illness
Epidemiology
Mucocutaneous Lymph Node Syndrome
SARS-CoV-2
Signs and Symptoms
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Instituto Nacional de SaludJournal
Revista Peruana de Medicina Experimental y Salud PublicaDOI
10.17843/rpmesp.2021.382.6719Abstract
We carried out an observational, retrospective and descriptive study in order to identify the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of children with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to a Peruvian national referral hospital. We included patients from one month old to fourteen years old hospitalized between March and August 2020. A total of 125 patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection were admitted, 18.4% (n = 23) had critical illness and 16.8% (n = 21) had multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C). The absence of comorbidities and previous history of epidemiological contact were more frequent in patients with MIS-C. Patients in critical condition and patients with MIS-C had lower lymphocyte and platelet counts, and higher C-reactive protein, ferritin and D-dimer values than patients who did not have said conditions. Six (4.8%) out of 125 children died, as well as 3 (13%) children from the group of patients in critical condition. None of the children with MIS-C died.Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/articleRights
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
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17264634EISSN
17264642ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.17843/rpmesp.2021.382.6719
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