ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DELTA AND OMICRON VARIANTS OF SARS-COV-2: CASE SERIES

Arnis Eņģelis; Liene Smane; Astra Zviedre; Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne; Timurs Zurmutai; Jana Pavāre; Jurijs Bormotovs; Mohit Kakar; Aigars Pētersons

doi:10.2478/prolas-2024-0050

ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DELTA AND OMICRON VARIANTS OF SARS-COV-2: CASE SERIES

Arnis Eņģelis (Corresponding Author), Liene Smane, Astra Zviedre, Anda Ķīvīte-Urtāne, Timurs Zurmutai, Jana Pavāre, Jurijs Bormotovs, Mohit Kakar, Aigars Pētersons

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COVID-19 caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is generally milder in children. Acute appendicitis (AA) is a common diagnosis in children, but greater understanding is needed for more adjusted treatment of these patients when in conjunction with acute COVID-19 infection. We provide a retrospective case series study of comparison of patients with AA and positive SARS-CoV-2 Delta (B.1.671.2) and Omicron (B.1.1.529) variants. There were 16 paediatric patients admitted to a tertiary hospital with suspected acute appendicitis and COVID-19. Compared with the Delta variant (B.1.617.2), children infected with Omicron variant (B.1.1.529) of SARS-CoV-2 infection were more likely to have fever (p = 0.04) and pain migration to the right lower quadrant (RLQ) (p = 0.02). Further studies are needed to characterise the differences between SARS-CoV-2 variants (Delta vs Omicron) in cases of acute appendicitis in children.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	347-353
Number of pages	7
Journal	Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences
Volume	78
Issue number	5-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2024-0050
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2024

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abdominal surgery
children
coronavirus disease 2019
viral

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3.2 Clinical medicine
3.3 Health sciences

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Eņģelis, A., Smane, L., Zviedre, A., Ķīvīte-Urtāne, A., Zurmutai, T., Pavāre, J., Bormotovs, J., Kakar, M., & Pētersons, A. (2024). ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DELTA AND OMICRON VARIANTS OF SARS-COV-2: CASE SERIES. Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Section B: Natural, Exact, and Applied Sciences, 78(5-6), 347-353. https://doi.org/10.2478/prolas-2024-0050

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ACUTE APPENDICITIS IN PAEDIATRIC PATIENTS WITH DELTA AND OMICRON VARIANTS OF SARS-COV-2: CASE SERIES. / Eņģelis, Arnis (Corresponding Author); Smane, Liene ; Zviedre, Astra et al.
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