Neurologic Involvement in Children and Adolescents Hospitalized in the United States for COVID-19 or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects the nervous system in adult patients. The spectrum of neurologic involvement in children and adolescents is unclear.

Objective

To understand the range and severity of neurologic involvement among children and adolescents associated with COVID-19.

Setting, design, and participants

Case series of patients (age <21 years) hospitalized between March 15, 2020, and December 15, 2020, with positive severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 test result (reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction and/or antibody) at 61 US hospitals in the Overcoming COVID-19 public health registry, including 616 (36%) meeting criteria for multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. Patients with neurologic involvement had acu

SUBMITTER: LaRovere KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7936352 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature