Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study

We conducted a retrospective cohort review of 180 patients aged 0–18 years with positive COVID-19 nasal PCR swab admitted to the only designated paediatric COVID-19 hospital in Abu Dhabi from 1 March to 1 June 2020. 60 (33%) patients were asymptomatic, 117 (65%) patients had mild or moderate symptom...

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Autores principales: Alattas, Bushra, Azaz, Amer, Rawat, David, Miqdady, Mohamad, Bitar, Rana
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Original Research Letter
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8609498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34841090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001219
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author Alattas, Bushra
Azaz, Amer
Rawat, David
Miqdady, Mohamad
Bitar, Rana
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description We conducted a retrospective cohort review of 180 patients aged 0–18 years with positive COVID-19 nasal PCR swab admitted to the only designated paediatric COVID-19 hospital in Abu Dhabi from 1 March to 1 June 2020. 60 (33%) patients were asymptomatic, 117 (65%) patients had mild or moderate symptoms and 3 patients required intensive care with no mortality reported. Symptoms at presentation were fever in 84 patients, cough in 62 patients and gastrointestinal symptoms in 48 patients.
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spelling pubmed-86094982021-11-23 Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study Alattas, Bushra Azaz, Amer Rawat, David Miqdady, Mohamad Bitar, Rana BMJ Paediatr Open Original Research Letter We conducted a retrospective cohort review of 180 patients aged 0–18 years with positive COVID-19 nasal PCR swab admitted to the only designated paediatric COVID-19 hospital in Abu Dhabi from 1 March to 1 June 2020. 60 (33%) patients were asymptomatic, 117 (65%) patients had mild or moderate symptoms and 3 patients required intensive care with no mortality reported. Symptoms at presentation were fever in 84 patients, cough in 62 patients and gastrointestinal symptoms in 48 patients. BMJ Publishing Group 2021-11-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8609498/ /pubmed/34841090 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001219 Text en © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2022. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) .
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Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title_full Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title_fullStr Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title_full_unstemmed Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title_short Clinical manifestations and outcome in children with COVID-19 infection in Abu Dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
title_sort clinical manifestations and outcome in children with covid-19 infection in abu dhabi: a retrospective single-centre study
topic Original Research Letter
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8609498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34841090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjpo-2021-001219
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