Clinical features of pediatric post-acute COVID-19 : a descriptive retrospective follow-up study
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2021-08-26
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To date, information on COVID-19 long-term post-recovery sequelae in children and adolescents remains scarce. A retrospective descriptive cohort study was performed by collecting data on 92 patients (age ≤ 18 years). All were evaluated during a face-to-face visit following a specially designed post-COVID-19 symptom assessment protocol at the following stage: 1–3 months after COVID-19 onset. Among the 92 children, 45 (49%) were completely free of any COVID-19-related symptoms, while 47 (51%) reported persistence of at least one symptom, in particular tiredness, loss of taste and/or smell and headaches. The most common post-acute COVID-19 clinical features were noted in children aged between 10 and 18 years. A detailed multidisciplinary follow-up of patients with COVID-19 seems relevant, whatever the severity of the symptoms.
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Funding Information: This study was supported by the National Research Program to Mitigate Consequences of COVID-19 (VPP-COVID-2020/1–0011). Publisher Copyright: © 2021, The Author(s).
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Pediatrics, Post-acute COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, 3.2 Clinical medicine, 1.1. Scientific article indexed in Web of Science and/or Scopus database, Pediatrics, Perinatology, and Child Health
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Smane, L, Roge, I, Pucuka, Z & Pavare, J 2021, 'Clinical features of pediatric post-acute COVID-19 : a descriptive retrospective follow-up study', Italian Journal of Pediatrics, vol. 47, no. 1, 177. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13052-021-01127-z