Espectro clínico y paraclínico del COVID-19 en pacientes pediátricos

Abstract

Abstract: The present is a bibliographical, narrative review type study, made with the objective of review the investigations carried out in pediatric patients diagnosed with COVID 19 to determine the clinical and paraclinical spectrum in said age group, all this through the use of search equations, together with exclusion and inclusion criteria, allowing the analysis of the investigations and the publication of their results. The study resulted in a series of clinical manifestations, findings analytical and imaging tests, including fever, dry cough, nasal congestion, pain throat, gastrointestinal symptoms, as part of the clinical spectrum; and leukocytosis, lymphopenia, elevation of inflammatory markers, opacities and consolidations, pattern in ground glass and peribronchial thickening, within the paraclinical spectrum. Therefore, it is concluded that the clinical and paraclinical spectrum at the pediatric level is variable and It presents with milder forms compared to the adult population.