Title
Cross-sectional study of the clinical characteristics and outcomes of children hospitalized with COVID-19 in Lima, Peru
Other title
Estudio transversal analítico de las características y desenlaces clínicos de niños hospitalizados con COVID-19 en Lima, Perú
Date Issued
20 January 2021
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Domínguez Rojas J.
Estupiñan Vigil M.
Garcés-Ghilardi R.
Lope Tenorio A.F.
Ayón Dejo C.C.
Chonlon Murillo K.
Boluarte Baca S.
Stapleton Herbozo A.
Seminario Aliaga R.
Reyes Florian G.
Dávila Riega D.
Fernández Suárez S.
Coronado Muñoz Á.
Publisher(s)
Medwave Estudios Ltda
Abstract
Introduction: Coronavirus 2019 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in children occurred in Peru as of March 2020, leading to pediatric patients' hospitalization in areas adapted for this purpose at the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins National Hospital. In the beginning, the demand for hospitalization was low, but it increased gradually. Consistent with international reports, the majority of patients presented mild or moderate symptoms. Nonetheless, there were also severe cases, even fatal ones. Objectives: To describe the characteristics and clinical outcome of pediatric patients with COVID-19 hospitalized in a referral hospital in Lima, Peru, between March and August 2020. Methods: A descriptive and inferential cross-sectional study was carried out. The population includes all hospitalized patients in the Department of Pediatrics, with clinical and surgical diagnoses associated with COVID-19. Results: We included 100 patients, with an average age of 83.4 ± 54 months, with a predominance of male patients (55%). Hospitalized patients were grouped into five categories: respiratory failure (17%), multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) (31%), neurological presentation (19%), acute abdomen (20%), and patients with oncological problems (13%). Most of the patients (74%) had comorbidities. Regarding the presenting symptoms, intestinal pain predominated in the appendicitis group (90%, p < 0.001), fever was present in most patients with respiratory failure (64.7%); multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (90.3%), neurological manifestations (15.8%), acute abdomen (50%) and oncological conditions (61.5%) were also present in these patients. Kawasaki symptoms were found in 38.7% of the patients with multisystemic inflammatory syndrome. Mortality was 4%. Respiratory problems (29.4%) and multisystemic inflammatory syndrome (22.6%) required admission to intensive care, more frequently than the other presentations (p = 0.008). Conclusions: We conclude that the vulnerability in the pediatric population is the one that has preexisting conditions. We divided our patients according to presentation, diagnosis, and complications, which were predominantly respiratory. We also had oncological patients with COVID-19.
Start page
e8107
Volume
21
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Pediatría Enfermedades infecciosas Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85101947710
PubMed ID
Source
Medwave
ISSN of the container
07176384
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