Thread by @elisaperego78

#LongCovidKids in Italy || Starting from the key clinical experience of a post covid clinic in Rome

@surf4children et al

"Long-term outcomes of pediatric infections: from traditional infectious diseases to #LongCovid" | Future Microbiology
futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fm…

#LongCovidKids in New Zealand 🇳🇿
A blog review of prolonged disease and sequelae in children after SARS-CoV-2 infection || including Long Covid and MIS-C || literature review and risk assessment with omicron

@DrAnnaNZ et al

@LongCovidNZ

blogs.otago.ac.nz/pubhealthexper…

Persistent lung dysfunction in children after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Even children are at risk of pulmonary sequelae from covid, despite this risk being downplayed since the early pandemic

#LongCovidKids

[pre-print]

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

We need to appropriately report on #LongCovid in children: the risk is certainly not negligible! Many symptom-based studies risk to under-count and underestimate the numbers

#LongCovidKids

@TheLancet

@dgurdasani1 @AthenaAkrami
et al.

thelancet.com/journals/lanch…

"Children with Long Covid" by H. Thomson

Severe evidence is emerging that pediatric patients are affected by prolonged disease after SARS-CoV-2 infection

#LongCovid #LongCovidKids

with mention of advocacy and patient-led resources by @LongCovidKids

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

There is urgent need to address the risk and treatment of #LongCovid in children: growing research shows kids can develop prolonged symptoms and sequelae after SARS-CoV-2 infection

Editorial in the key scientific journal @Nature out in early 2022

nature.com/articles/d4158…

Children and young people can experience persistent symptoms after SARS-CoV-2 infection, as reported by the patient community

Why we need to keep using the patient-made term #LongCovid

Myself and co-authors in @bmj_latest on 1 October 2020

blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2020/10/01…

Children can experience persistent covid symptoms, although this remained poorly investigated as of late summer 2020. Yet, patient-led research and reports e.g. from @LongCovidKids clearly showed #LongCovidKids was a thing

Out on 2/09/2020

undark.org/2020/09/02/kid…

Reports and advocacy by parents and children with #LongCovid were crucial to draw attention to #LongCovidKids in 2020

Early patient reports are being confirmed by new, key scientific evidence

Myself and @felicitycallard pre-print out in early 2021

osf.io/preprints/soca…

New research into the immune profile of MIS-C, with evidence of severe dysregulation

MIS-C is the multi-system inflammatory sindrome seen in children a few weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection. It can be fatal

#LongCovidKids

h/t @CovidSolidarit1

jacionline.org/article/S0091-…

A small case series from early 2020 || children with critical covid, who required ECMO = Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

Thankfully rare

Note that at least 1 child suffered pulmonary embolism 30 days into care > prolonged coagulopathy

journals.lww.com/asaiojournal/F…

Large meta-analysis of existing studies suggests #LongCovidKids is not rare | multiple symptoms ~ clinical signs identified, many of which overlap with those in adults | pre-print | limitation: study based on review of previous research

h/t @BinitaKane

medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Myocardial involvement in a small sample of children from Italy's early wave in 2020. Some little patients report multi-system symptoms, later known as #MISC

#LongCovidKids

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…

Clinical characteristics of a sample of children suffering from pediatric #LongCovid

@surf4children et al. (2022) incl. @LongCovidKids

#LongCovidKids

futuremedicine.com/doi/10.2217/fm…