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COVID-19 in a Tertiary Paediatric Centre in Portugal: a Single-Centre Retrospective Study
| dc.contributor.author | Milheiro Silva, T | |
| dc.contributor.author | Garcia, AM | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gouveia, C | |
| dc.contributor.author | Candeias, F | |
| dc.contributor.author | Brito, MJ | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-11-07T15:41:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-11-07T15:41:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.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 other reasons. The most common symptoms in children admitted with COVID-19 were fever (49) and cough (38). Six patients required intensive care. Two children died and seven reported short-term sequelae. Conclusions: COVID-19 is usually a mild disease in children, but a small proportion of patients develop severe and critical disease. Fatal outcomes were rare and only occurred in children with severe previous medical conditions. | pt_PT |
| dc.description.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.citation | BMJ Paediatr Open . 2022 Jun;6(1):e001252 | pt_PT |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10400.17/4267 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | pt_PT |
| dc.peerreviewed | yes | pt_PT |
| dc.publisher | BMJ | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | COVID-19 | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Virology. | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | Hospital Dona Estefânia | pt_PT |
| dc.subject | HDE INF PED | pt_PT |
| dc.title | COVID-19 in a Tertiary Paediatric Centre in Portugal: a Single-Centre Retrospective Study | pt_PT |
| dc.type | journal article | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| oaire.citation.issue | 1 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.startPage | e001252 | pt_PT |
| oaire.citation.volume | 6 | pt_PT |
| rcaap.rights | openAccess | pt_PT |
| rcaap.type | article | pt_PT |