Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in neonates and young infants

We report the clinical characteristics and management of fourteen neonates and very young infants with COVID-19. Although all presented with mild symptoms and did not require specific treatment, most of them had abnormal laboratory and radiological findings. Ten infants presented with neutropenia an...

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Autores principales: Spoulou, Vana, Noni, Maria, Koukou, Dimitra, Kossyvakis, Athanasios, Michos, Athanasios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021
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Short Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8009690/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33786658
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-021-04042-x
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Noni, Maria
Koukou, Dimitra
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Michos, Athanasios
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description We report the clinical characteristics and management of fourteen neonates and very young infants with COVID-19. Although all presented with mild symptoms and did not require specific treatment, most of them had abnormal laboratory and radiological findings. Ten infants presented with neutropenia and/or monocytosis but none with lymphopenia. Transient hypertriglyceridemia and/or prolonged viral shedding were detected in 9 patients. Conclusion: Based to our experience, COVID-19 is mild in very young infants and might have distinct laboratory findings.
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spelling pubmed-80096902021-03-31 Clinical characteristics of COVID-19 in neonates and young infants Spoulou, Vana Noni, Maria Koukou, Dimitra Kossyvakis, Athanasios Michos, Athanasios Eur J Pediatr Short Communication We report the clinical characteristics and management of fourteen neonates and very young infants with COVID-19. Although all presented with mild symptoms and did not require specific treatment, most of them had abnormal laboratory and radiological findings. Ten infants presented with neutropenia and/or monocytosis but none with lymphopenia. Transient hypertriglyceridemia and/or prolonged viral shedding were detected in 9 patients. Conclusion: Based to our experience, COVID-19 is mild in very young infants and might have distinct laboratory findings. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2021-03-31 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8009690/ /pubmed/33786658 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00431-021-04042-x Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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