Differences in children and adolescents with SARS-CoV-2 infection: a cohort study in a Brazilian tertiary referral hospital.
Heloisa Helena de Sousa MarquesMaria Fernanda Badue PereiraAngélica Carreira Dos SantosThais Toledo FinkCamila Sanson Yoshino de PaulaNadia LitvinovCláudio SchvartsmanArtur Figueiredo DelgadoMaria Augusta Bento Cicaroni GibelliWerther Brunow de B CarvalhoVicente Odone FilhoXingzhi LiaoMagda Maria Sales Carneiro-SampaioSandra Josefina Ferraz Ellero GrisiAlberto Jose da Silva DuarteLeila AntonangeloRossana Pulcinelli Vieira FranciscoThelma Suely OkayLinamara Rizzo BatisttellaCarlos Roberto Ribeiro de CarvalhoAlexandra Valéria Maria BrentaniClovis Artur Almeida da Silvanull nullAdriana Pasmanik EisencraftAlfio Rossi JuniorAlice Lima FanteAline Pivetta CoraAmelia Gorete A de Costa ReisAna Paula Scoleze FerrerAnarella Penha Meirelles de AndradeAndreia WatanabeAngelina Maria Freire GonçalvesAurora Rosaria Pagliara WaetgeCamila Altenfelder SilvaCarina CenevivaCarolina Dos Santos LazariDeipara Monteiro AbellanEmilly Henrique Dos SantosEster Cerdeira SabinoFabíola Roberta Marim BianchiniFlávio Ferraz de Paes AlcantaraGabriel Frizzo RamosGabriela Nunes LealIsadora Souza RodriguezJoão Renato Rebello PinhoJorge David Avaizoglou CarneiroJose Albino PazJuliana Carvalho FerreiraJuliana Ferreira FerrantiJuliana de Oliveira Achili FerreiraJuliana Valéria de Souza FramilKatia Regina da SilvaKelly Aparecida KanunfreKarina Lucio de Medeiros BastosKarine Vusberg GalletiLilian Maria CristofaniLisa SuzukiLucia Maria Arruda CamposMaria Beatriz de Moliterno PerondiMaria de Fatima Rodrigues DinizMaria Fernanda Mota FonsecaMariana Nutti de Almeida CordonMariana PissolatoMarina Silva PeresMarlene Pereira GaranitoMarta ImamuraMayra de Barros DornaMichele LuglioMussya Cisotto RochaNadia Emi AikawaNatalia Viu DegaspareNeusa Keico SakitaNicole Lee UdsenPaula Gobi ScudellerPaula Vieira de Vincenzi GaiollaRafael da Silva Giannasi SeveriniRegina Maria RodriguesRicardo Katsuya TomaRicardo Iunis Citrangulo de PaulaPatricia PalmeiraSilvana ForsaitSylvia Costa Lima FarhatTânia Miyuki Shimoda SakanoVera Hermina Kalika KochVilson Cobello JuniorPublished in: Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) (2021)
Half of the laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases occurred in adolescents. Individuals belonging to this age group had an acute systemic involvement of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Pediatric SARS and MIS-C were the most important factors associated with the mortality rate in pediatric chronic conditions with COVID-19.