Changes in Distribution of Severe Neurologic Involvement in US Pediatric Inpatients With COVID-19 or Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children in 2021 vs 2020.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, neurologic involvement was common in children and adolescents hospitalized in the United States for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)-related complications.

Objective

To provide an update on the spectrum of SARS-CoV-2-related neurologic involvement among children and adolescents in 2021.

Design, setting, and participants

Case series investigation of patients reported to public health surveillance hospitalized with SARS-CoV-2-related illness between December 15, 2020, and December 31, 2021, in 55 US hospitals in 31 states with follow-up at hospital discharge. A total of 2253 patients were enrolled during the investigation period. Patients suspected of having multisystem inflammatory syndrome in

SUBMITTER: LaRovere KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9641594 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature