Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care
Pandemics of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 has been circulating the world since the beginning of 2020 in several waves leaving behind many millions of affected individuals and very many fatalities. In children, the course of the disease has generally been milder that in adults; however, there was a wid...
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2021-01-01
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| description | Pandemics of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 has been circulating the world since the beginning of 2020 in several waves leaving behind many millions of affected individuals and very many fatalities. In children, the course of the disease has generally been milder that in adults; however, there was a wide range of possible serious complications observed including the pediatric fatalities. In this article, we review possible complications of COVID-19 in children and also focus on the role of pediatric primary care practitioners in the diagnosis and management of this serious disease. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8b3b09e5b52a4350a272fa3dd80bc6882025-08-20T03:13:51ZengWolters Kluwer Medknow PublicationsPediatric Respirology and Critical Care Medicine2543-03432543-03512021-01-015161010.4103/prcm.prcm_15_21Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary CarePetr PohunekPandemics of the coronavirus SARS-Cov-2 has been circulating the world since the beginning of 2020 in several waves leaving behind many millions of affected individuals and very many fatalities. In children, the course of the disease has generally been milder that in adults; however, there was a wide range of possible serious complications observed including the pediatric fatalities. In this article, we review possible complications of COVID-19 in children and also focus on the role of pediatric primary care practitioners in the diagnosis and management of this serious disease.https://journals.lww.com/10.4103/prcm.prcm_15_21childrencomplicationscovid-19epidemiologymis-cnovel coronaviruspims-tsprimary caresars-cov-2 |
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| title | Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care |
| title_full | Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care |
| title_fullStr | Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care |
| title_full_unstemmed | Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care |
| title_short | Complications of COVID-19 in Children and the Approach to the Affected Children in Pediatric Primary Care |
| title_sort | complications of covid 19 in children and the approach to the affected children in pediatric primary care |
| topic | children complications covid-19 epidemiology mis-c novel coronavirus pims-ts primary care sars-cov-2 |
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