Open AccessOn clinical manifestations of the new coronavirus infection in newborns
Author(s) -
E.S. Golenetskaya,
T.V. Tolstikova,
L.V. Bregel,
T.Y. Belkova
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
sibirskoe medicinskoe obozrenie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2500-0136
pISSN - 1819-9496
DOI - 10.20333/25000136-2022-1-66-71
Subject(s) - medicine , asymptomatic , pneumonia , pediatrics , coronavirus , covid-19 , incidence (geometry) , pandemic , sepsis , retrospective cohort study , epidemiology , disease , infectious disease (medical specialty) , immunology , physics , optics
The aim of the research. To study the specifics in manifestations of the new coronavirus infection in newborns. Material and methods. A retrospective analysis of observations of 28 newborns diagnosed with the new coronavirus infection SARS-CoV-2 dated from June to December 2020 was performed. The infants were transferred from the perinatal centre for hospitalisation to the infectious department of a children’s hospital. The patients were born to mothers with COVID-19 as well as mothers discharged from hospital and hospitalised later due to COVID-19 acquired through family contact. Clinical and laboratory data of 12 female and 16 male children aged 1 to 28 days were studied. Results. Clinical symptoms of the new coronavirus infection in newborns tend to be different: from asymptomatic course in 46.5 % of the patients to evident pneumonia in 50 % of the children. The newborns admitted with COVID-19 acquired through family contact had more severe disease manifestations. Conclusion. Amidst the pandemic rise of its incidence, the new coronavirus infection COVID-19 is not rare among newborns. COVID-19 newborns did not have a registered severe nosocomial infection, sepsis, multisystem infl ammatory syndrome.