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Revista Cubana de Pediatría
Print version ISSN 0034-7531On-line version ISSN 1561-3119
Abstract
DIAZ COLINA, José Antonio et al. Clinical-epidemiological features in 36 Cuban children with COVID-19. Rev Cubana Pediatr [online]. 2020, vol.92, suppl.1, e1261. Epub Nov 30, 2020. ISSN 0034-7531.
Introduction:
COVID-19 is an infectious disease with high transmissibility.
Objective:
To characterize the pediatrics casuistry that allows having the relevant knowledge to fight COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba.
Methods:
Descriptive, observational and cross-sectional study in patients with COVID-19 admitted in San Miguel del Padrón municipality’s Pediatric Hospital from April to June, 2020. There were analyzed as variables: age, sex, nutritional state, previous diseases, living area, sintomatology in the moment of admission, results of complementary tests, and state in the moment of discharge.
Results:
36 children were identified with COVID-19. Proportion according to sex had no differences. There was a predominance of the group age among 10 to 14 years, mixed race patients and the asymptomatic forms in 72,2% of them. The most frequent comorbidities were slight bronchial asthma and slight anemia. There was predominance of patients living in the Eastern area of the capital, mainly in the statistic weeks #21 and #25. In the group of symptomatic patients prevailed the respiratory manifestations and the fever. The complementary tests showed lymphocytes (63,9%), anemia (13,9) and pulmonary infiltrates (8,3%). 100% of the patients had favorable evolution and negative PCR after finishing the treatment.
Conclusions:
COVID-19 had a higher incidence in 10 or more year’s children. There were not variations regarding sex. Mixed race patients predominated. Patients had a variable clinical spectrum, and an evolution of the PCR conditioned by the presence of individual and social risk factors. Clinical recovery and regression of hematologic and radiologic alterations was achieved in all the patients among 2 to 3 weeks.
Keywords : SARS-CoV-2; COVID-19; disease; child.