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We report data on pediatric post-COVID syndrome from a Czech multicentric observational study. We enrolled children aged 2-18 years with persisting respiratory symptoms (cough, dyspnoea, chest pain) more than twelve weeks after COVID-19. Medical history, physical examination, lung function testing, chest X-ray and blood tests were performed. In 39 enrolled children, dominant reported symptoms were exercise-induced dyspnoea and cough. On lung function testing, we found abnormal results in less than 15% of children and on imaging in less than 20%. From the analysis of enrolled subjects, we identified four possible post-COVID subgroups: “standard”, “asthmatic”, “sporty” and “polymorphous”. Complete remission of tracked symptoms occurred within a median of 4 months in followed subjects

Aim of the study: To review the occurrence, follow-up, and outcome of necrotizing pneumonia requiring surgical management. Methods: A prospective–retrospective, single-centre study of patients with necrotizing pneumonia managed between 1 January 2010 and 31 December 2019. Main results: The study cohort consisted of 1,295 patients admitted to the paediatric department for pneumonia, 36 of whom underwent parenchymal lung resection. A five-year rise in the occurrence of necrotizing pneumonia requiring resection was 77%, with a significant increase in the last three years (P