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Prevalence of Clinical and Radiological Manifestations among COVID-19 Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Author(s):
Hanan Saleh Aloqbi*, Ghaliya Yahya Shannaq, Tahani Ahmed Douf, Manal Mohammed Maashi, Faisal Mohammed Aljadani, Amro Abdullah Alsultan, Khadijah Jadah Asiri and Naif Abdullah Alotaibi
Background: The severity of lung involvement associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection levels from lack of symptoms or slight pneumonia (in 81%) to excessive disease-associated hypoxia (seen in 14%), a critical disease associated with shock, respiration failure, and multi-organ failure (in 5%) or death (2.3%). Aim: This work aims to determine the prevalence of clinical and radiological manifestations among children and adolescents COVID-19 patients. Materials and Methods: A systematic search was performed over different medical databases to identify Pediatrics studies, which studied the outcome of COVID-19 infection in children and adolescents. Using the meta-analysis process, either with fixed or random-effects models, we conducted a meta-analysis on the prevalence of clinical manifestations (e.g., fever, nasa.. Read More»