Case Series
Year: 2020 | Month: October-December | Volume: 5 | Issue: 4 | Pages: 33-36
A Case Series of the Spectrum of Severe SARS CoV Infection in Hospitalized Children in a Tertiary Care
Shweta Pathak1, Monica Lazarus2, Pawan Ghanghoriya3
1Assistant Professor, NSCB Medical College Jabalpur
2MD Paediatrics, Associate Professor, Dept of Paediatrics, NSCB Medical College Jabalpur
3MD Paediatrics, Professor, Dept of Paediatrics, NSCB Medical College Jabalpur
Corresponding Author: Shweta Pathak
ABSTRACT
We describe 6 children of severe COVID-19 infection of age group 2 months to 14years admitted to a large tertiary care medical college hospital in Jabalpur (MP). All 6 patients presented with fever, lymphopenia, and granulocytosis, high levels of inflammatory markers on laboratory evaluation. Three of the 6 patients were found to have positive antibody titers and negative RT-PCR values in which 1 presented with Kawasaki like illness and 2nd one presented with encephalitis. Two had known exposures to close contacts. In this case series, we describe 6 patients to be reported with severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 in the tertiary care government medical college and hospital.
Keywords: Covid 19, children, clinical features