Mucocutaneous Manifestations due to Covid-19 in Paediatric Age Group in a Tertiary Care Centre in Southern India: A Retrospective Study | Chapter 5 | Research Developments in Medicine and Medical Science Vol. 10

 This study throws arrive the diversity in cutaneous manifestations on account of COVID-19 in paediatric age group. Mucocutaneous lesions guide SARS-CoV-2 infection are still under investigation, on account of their polymorphic dispassionate aspect and incompletely assumed pathogenic mechanism. Dermatological lesions named during COVID-19 infection maybe brought on by a sort of inflammatory cytokines that enter the skin and reach various cells of the cutaneous invulnerable system.The study was an observational study approved on paeadiatric COVID cases aged inferior 12 years who were accepted in COVID isolation ward of Institute of Child Health, Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital attended for 3 months from August 2020 to October 2020.A total of 191 swab-confirmed cases of COVID-19 old less than 12 age were recruited in the study. Out of 191 cases, 19 had dermatological manifestations (10%). The most average type of dermatological manifestation noted in our study was maculopapular rash (n=8), attended by purpura (n=4), urticaria (n=3), angular cheilitis (n=2), palmar erythema (n=1), purpura accompanying palmar erythema occurring together (n=1). Time latency middle from two points onset of first COVID syndrome and occurrence of cutaneous lesion was 1 to 7 days. Mucocutaneous proofs in MIS-C can be various with scarlatiniform rashes, morbilliform rashes, urticarial, reticulated eruptions, periorbital erythema and edema, palmoplantar erythema, lip erythema,insolence cracking, conjuctival needle.Children hospitalized with COVID-19 had miscellaneous mucocutaneous manifestations that dermatologists and paediatricians should be aware of. Kawasaki affliction like features all along this pandemic should evoke the minds of treating doctors to deem diagnosis of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children, thereby permissive timely attack.

Author(s) Details:

Priyavathani Annie Malathy,
Department of Dermatology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India.

S. Thamizhselvi,
Department of Dermatology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India.

H. R. Poornima,
Department of Dermatology, Madras Medical College and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai,Tamil Nadu, India.

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