COVID-19 in a tertiary paediatric centre in Portugal: a single-centre retrospective study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe the demographic, clinical, laboratory and imaging features of the first 300 SARS-CoV-2-infected children presenting to a tertiary paediatric centre in Portugal.

Design

Single-centre, retrospective, descriptive study of paediatric patients who had a confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection from 7 March to 20 September 2020.

Setting

Tertiary paediatric referral centre (Hospital Dona Estefânia, Lisbon, Portugal).

Patients

18 years or younger.

Main outcome measures

Incidence, mortality, age of infection, clinical characteristics, treatment prescribed and outcome.

Results

Three hundred patients with confirmed COVID-19 presented to the centre. One hundred and seventeen (39%) patients were admitted to the hospital: 69 with COVID-19 and 48 for

SUBMITTER: Silva TM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9240441 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature