Clinical characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 infection in patients hospitalized in pediatric icu at a private clinic in Lima, Perú

Abstract

The present study is a series of 32 cases of pediatric patients who were hospitalized in the pediatric ICU of the International Clinic and whose admission diagnoses included the terms "COVID-19" or "SARS-CoV-2". The cases were divided according to the age of the patients and according to the discharge diagnosis such as MIS-C or EK as group A and other diagnoses related to COVID-19, as group B. 19 (59.4%) of the included patients were discharged with a diagnosis of MIS-C or KD, the remaining 13 (40.6%) were discharged with other, non-MIS-C, COVID-19-related diagnoses. 53% (n=17) of the patients were men. The symptoms most frequently reported by patients were fever (81.25%, n=26), respiratory symptoms (68.8%, n=22), and gastrointestinal symptoms (56.3%, n=18). In group 1 there was evidence of a slight predominance by the male sex of 68.42% (p=0.036). Likewise, in this group there was a lower frequency of comorbidities compared to group 2 (43.11% vs 84.6%, p=0.016).