Clinical spectrum of neurological manifestations in pediatric COVID-19 and MIS-C in a Tertiary Care Center, Karnataka, India: a retrospective cross-sectional study

Objective: To study the clinical spectrum of neurological manifestations in Pediatric COVID-19 and MIS-C cases presented to tertiary care hospital. Study design: A Retrospective Cross-sectional study. Study population: All pediatric cases in the age group =14 years diagnosed to be COVID-19 positive or with MIS-C. Methods and Results: The study includes admitted cases of 29 out of 1577 diagnosed COVID-19 children and 13 MIS-C cases;data collected from records from medical record section. Among these 5 cases (17.2%) of COVID-19 and 7 cases (53.8%) of MIS-C presented with various neurological manifestations including convulsion, altered sensorium/behavior and stroke like features.