Pulmonary embolism in pediatric and adolescent patients with COVID-19 infection during the SARS-CoV-2 delta wave.
Pediatr Blood Cancer
; 69(8): e29721, 2022 08.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1797777
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection in children has been associated with thrombosis, though few cases of COVID-associated pulmonary embolism (PE) have been described. We performed a retrospective review of the nine cases of COVID-19-associated PE during the B.1617.2 variant surge at Texas Children's Hospital. The patient cohort largely contained unvaccinated obese adolescents. All patients were critically ill with two requiring catheter-directed thrombolysis in addition to anticoagulation. Eight of the nine patients had COVID pneumonia along with PE. This report stresses the importance of maintaining a high index of suspicion for PE in pediatric COVID-19 infection and vaccinating obese adolescent patients.
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Full text:
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Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pulmonary Embolism
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Thrombosis
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Pediatric Obesity
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
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Vaccines
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Variants
Limits:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Pediatr Blood Cancer
Journal subject:
Hematology
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Neoplasms
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Pediatrics
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Pbc.29721
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