Clinical Profile and Outcome of COVID-19 Among Immunocompromised Children

This retrospective study describes the clinical profile, risk of infection and outcome of coronavirus disease-19 in immunocompromised children. It was found that children on immunosuppressant medication has 2.89 times increased risk of infection (P=0.01). Disease manifestation was asymptomatic (P=0....

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Autores principales: Rao, Sunil Kumar, Kumar, Ashutosh, Prasad, Rajniti, Gupta, Vineeta, Mishra, Om Prakash
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2021
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Research Letters
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8339160/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34315835
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-021-2267-6
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Kumar, Ashutosh
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description This retrospective study describes the clinical profile, risk of infection and outcome of coronavirus disease-19 in immunocompromised children. It was found that children on immunosuppressant medication has 2.89 times increased risk of infection (P=0.01). Disease manifestation was asymptomatic (P=0.01) or mild with predominant gastrointestinal symptoms (P=0.02) without alteration in immunosuppressive treatment regime.
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spelling pubmed-83391602021-08-06 Clinical Profile and Outcome of COVID-19 Among Immunocompromised Children Rao, Sunil Kumar Kumar, Ashutosh Prasad, Rajniti Gupta, Vineeta Mishra, Om Prakash Indian Pediatr Research Letters This retrospective study describes the clinical profile, risk of infection and outcome of coronavirus disease-19 in immunocompromised children. It was found that children on immunosuppressant medication has 2.89 times increased risk of infection (P=0.01). Disease manifestation was asymptomatic (P=0.01) or mild with predominant gastrointestinal symptoms (P=0.02) without alteration in immunosuppressive treatment regime. Springer India 2021-08-05 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8339160/ /pubmed/34315835 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13312-021-2267-6 Text en © Indian Academy of Pediatrics 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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