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Clinical, laboratory and imaging characteristics, and outcomes of hospitalized children with suspected COVID-19 infection: A report from Isfahan-Iran
| العنوان: | Clinical, laboratory and imaging characteristics, and outcomes of hospitalized children with suspected COVID-19 infection: A report from Isfahan-Iran |
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| المؤلفون: | Hamid Rahimi, Zahra Pourmoghaddas, Marzieh Aalinezhad, Fariba Alikhani, Rana Saleh, Sheida Amini, Saman Tavakoli, Shima Saeidi, Narges Sharifi, Silva Hovsepian |
| المصدر: | Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, Vol 27, Iss 1, Pp 27-27 (2022) |
| بيانات النشر: | Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Medicine |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | covid-19, child, symptom assessment, medical laboratory science, Medicine |
| الوصف: | Background: The aim of this study was to evaluate the clinical, laboratory and imaging characteristics, and outcomes of hospitalized children with suspected COVID-19 infection in Isfahan. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, all children aged < 15 years, who hospitalized as suspected case of COVID-19 were enrolled. During this study, all demographic, clinical, laboratory, and imaging characteristics as well as follow-up data and outcomes of the hospitalized children were recorded by pediatric residents using a questionnaire. The findings of studied populations in the two groups of definite/or suspected and negative COVID-19 patients were compared. Results: During 6 months' period, 137 children with suspected COVID-19 infection were evaluated. Mean age of studied population was 4.3 (0.38) years. The most common symptoms in order were fever, cough, dyspnea and diarrhea. The most common computed tomography scan findings were bilateral ground glass and subpleural involvements. The rate of mortality was 7.3%. COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test was positive in 22% of the patients. Based on the specialist's diagnosis, 30/25 patients were definite/or suspected to COVID-19 and reminder (79) were negative. O2 saturation |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1735-1995 1735-7136 |
| Relation: | http://www.jmsjournal.net/article.asp?issn=1735-1995;year=2022;volume=27;issue=1;spage=27;epage=27;aulast=Rahimi; https://doaj.org/toc/1735-1995; https://doaj.org/toc/1735-7136 |
| DOI: | 10.4103/jrms.jrms_815_21 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/e96d8d8c02404952845c2e65ee7ba671 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.96d8d8c02404952845c2e65ee7ba671 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 17351995 17357136 |
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| DOI: | 10.4103/jrms.jrms_815_21 |