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COVID-19 Infection in Iranian Newborns and their Mothers: a Case Series

BACKGROUND: The symptoms, severity, and prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are surprisingly different in neonates versus adults or even children. Currently, there are few studies on neonatal and maternal COVID-19 with limited populations. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, we present 13...

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Autores principales: Mohagheghi, Parisa, Hakimelahi, Javad, Khalajinia, Zohreh, Sadeghi Moghadam, Parvaneh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976089
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author Mohagheghi, Parisa
Hakimelahi, Javad
Khalajinia, Zohreh
Sadeghi Moghadam, Parvaneh
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description BACKGROUND: The symptoms, severity, and prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are surprisingly different in neonates versus adults or even children. Currently, there are few studies on neonatal and maternal COVID-19 with limited populations. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, we present 13 Iranian symptomatic newborns with a positive nasopharyngeal COVID-19 test and their maternal data on COVID-19. All neonates were admitted to the hospital at the first day of life, mostly having symptoms at birth, except three cases that had symptoms at days 2, 11, and 22. Almost all cases had respiratory distress and were tachypneic, which needed respiratory support. Although most cases were discharged after recovery, two patients died at days 12 and 48. CONCLUSION: Neonatal COVID-19 cases mostly had respiratory symptoms and subsequent radiographic features of a viral pneumonia; thus, they had an effective response to oxygen therapy. The symptoms were by far less severe in newborns, although we lost two cases to this infection. This highlights the necessity for good COVID-19 prognosis in infants and neonates.
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spelling pubmed-87102232021-12-30 COVID-19 Infection in Iranian Newborns and their Mothers: a Case Series Mohagheghi, Parisa Hakimelahi, Javad Khalajinia, Zohreh Sadeghi Moghadam, Parvaneh Tanaffos Case Series BACKGROUND: The symptoms, severity, and prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are surprisingly different in neonates versus adults or even children. Currently, there are few studies on neonatal and maternal COVID-19 with limited populations. CASE PRESENTATION: In this study, we present 13 Iranian symptomatic newborns with a positive nasopharyngeal COVID-19 test and their maternal data on COVID-19. All neonates were admitted to the hospital at the first day of life, mostly having symptoms at birth, except three cases that had symptoms at days 2, 11, and 22. Almost all cases had respiratory distress and were tachypneic, which needed respiratory support. Although most cases were discharged after recovery, two patients died at days 12 and 48. CONCLUSION: Neonatal COVID-19 cases mostly had respiratory symptoms and subsequent radiographic features of a viral pneumonia; thus, they had an effective response to oxygen therapy. The symptoms were by far less severe in newborns, although we lost two cases to this infection. This highlights the necessity for good COVID-19 prognosis in infants and neonates. National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 2021-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8710223/ /pubmed/34976089 Text en Copyright© 2021 National Research Institute of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8710223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34976089
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