Acute appendicitis in four children with SARS-CoV-2 infection

We describe 4 children (11–17 years in age) at our institution with acute appendicitis in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting a possible association. Providers should consider testing for this infection in patients with severe gastrointestinal symptoms, in order to take appropriate trans...

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Autores principales: Meyer, Jessica S., Robinson, Grant, Moonah, Shannon, Levin, Daniel, McGahren, Eugene, Herring, Katye, Poulter, Melinda, Waggoner-Fountain, Linda, Shirley, Debbie-Ann
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7690274/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33262930
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2020.101734
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author Meyer, Jessica S.
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Moonah, Shannon
Levin, Daniel
McGahren, Eugene
Herring, Katye
Poulter, Melinda
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Robinson, Grant
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description We describe 4 children (11–17 years in age) at our institution with acute appendicitis in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting a possible association. Providers should consider testing for this infection in patients with severe gastrointestinal symptoms, in order to take appropriate transmission based precautions, until more is understood.
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spelling pubmed-76902742020-11-27 Acute appendicitis in four children with SARS-CoV-2 infection Meyer, Jessica S. Robinson, Grant Moonah, Shannon Levin, Daniel McGahren, Eugene Herring, Katye Poulter, Melinda Waggoner-Fountain, Linda Shirley, Debbie-Ann J Pediatr Surg Case Rep Article We describe 4 children (11–17 years in age) at our institution with acute appendicitis in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection, suggesting a possible association. Providers should consider testing for this infection in patients with severe gastrointestinal symptoms, in order to take appropriate transmission based precautions, until more is understood. The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-01 2020-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7690274/ /pubmed/33262930 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.epsc.2020.101734 Text en © 2020 The Authors Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Waggoner-Fountain, Linda
Shirley, Debbie-Ann
Acute appendicitis in four children with SARS-CoV-2 infection
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