1. COVID-19 infections in infants
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Małgorzata Sobolewska-Pilarczyk, Maria Pokorska-Śpiewak, Anna Stachowiak, Magdalena Marczyńska, Ewa Talarek, Agnieszka Ołdakowska, Izabela Kucharek, Adam Sybilski, Anna Mania, Magdalena Figlerowicz, Katarzyna Mazur-Melewska, Paulina Potocka, Artur Sulik, Barbara Hasiec, Martyna Stani, Paulina Frańczak-Chmura, Barbara Szczepańska, Ilona Pałyga-Bysiecka, Przemysław Ciechanowski, Joanna Łasecka-Zadrożna, Izabela Zaleska, Leszek Szenborn, Urszula Dryja, Ernest Kuchar, Sławomira Niedźwiecka, Bolesław Kalicki, Robert Flisiak, and Małgorzata Pawłowska
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Medicine ,Science - Abstract
Abstract The study aimed to analyse the clinical course of COVID-19 in 300 infants, selected from 1283 children diagnosed with COVID-19 between March and December 2020, registered in the SARSTerPED multicenter database. Most of the infants were registered in October and November 2020. 44% of the group were girls, and 56% were boys. At diagnosis, the most common symptoms were fever in 77% of the children, cough in 40%, catarrh in 37%. Pneumonia associated with COVID-19 was diagnosed in 23% of the children, and gastrointestinal symptoms in 31.3%. In 52% of the infants, elevated levels of D-dimers were observed, and in 40%, elevated levels of IL-6 serum concentration were observed. During the second wave of the pandemic, 6 times more infants were hospitalized, and the children were statistically significantly younger compared to the patients during the first wave (3 months vs 8 months, p
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- 2022
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