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More severe pneumonitis in children predicts the need for admission and elevation of some but not all markers of severe Covid-19. (preprint)
medrxiv; 2022.
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Dans Anglais
| medRxiv | ID: ppzbmed-10.1101.2022.03.19.22272644
ABSTRACT
Unlike most other viral pneumonitis, SARS-CoV-2 often causes hyperferritinemia, elevations in D-dimer, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), transaminases, troponin, CRP, and other inflammatory markers. We questioned (1) if the severity of pneumonitis observed on lung ultrasound was associated with hospitalization and (2) could lung ultrasound be used to stratify which children needed blood tests? Methods We did a retrospective cross-sectional review of children aged between 14 days and 21 years of age being evaluated for Covid-19 in our pediatric emergency department from 30/November/2019 to 14/August/2021 who had had a point-of-care lung ultrasound. Lung ultrasounds were categorized using a 6-point ordinal scale. We used logistic regression to estimate the adjusted effect of lung ultrasound on hospital admission. We performed ordinary least square regression for the association between lung ultrasound severity and laboratory abnormalities. We adjusted these using propensity score derived inverse probability weighting to account for the non-random decision to obtain laboratory investigations. Results We identified 500 point-of-care lung ultrasounds of which 427 could be assigned a severity category. Increasing lung ultrasound severity was associated with increased hospital admission OR 1.36( 95% CI 1.08, 1.72.) Ferritin, LDH, transaminases, and D-dimer, but not CRP or troponin were significantly associated with more than moderately severe lung ultrasounds. D-Dimer, CRP, and troponin were sometimes elevated even when lung ultrasound was normal. Conclusion Severity of pneumonitis was associated with hospital admission. Ferritin, LDH, transaminases, and D-dimer were increased in more than moderately severe pneumonitis but lung ultrasound did not predict elevation of other markers.
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Sujet Principal:
Pneumopathie infectieuse
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COVID-19
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Infection de laboratoire
langue:
Anglais
Année:
2022
Type de document:
Preprint
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