A retrospective study of age-defined hematologic inflammatory markers related to pediatric COVID-19 diagnosis.

Yasemin Ustundag Elif Güler Kazancı Rahime Feyza Koloğlu Hatice A Çağlak Fatih Yildirim Elif Yalçın Arıkan Kağan Huysal

Published in: International journal of laboratory hematology (2022)

In children younger than 6 months, the discriminative power of hematological indices is low, while the discriminative power of EMR is high at all ages when age appropriate cutoffs are used. Hematological inflammatory parameters may be particularly practical in pediatric clinics to help identify COVID-19 infection.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
primary care
young adults
oxidative stress
childhood cancer