ArticleChildren (Basel, Switzerland)2023
Emergency Department Admissions of Children with Chest Pain before and during COVID-19 Pandemic.
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- Advances in Fragment-based Drug Design: Lessons and Innovations from the Post-COVID Drug Discovery Landscape.Mini reviews in medicinal chemistry · 2026Review
- Approaches to Pediatric Chest Pain: A Narrative Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
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- Pediatric Chest Pain: A Review of Diagnostic Tools in the Pediatric Emergency Department.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Chest pain attendances to a Paediatric Emergency Department pre- and post-COVID-19 vaccination.Translational pediatrics · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesWe compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental evaluations of chest pain in children between the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 period and analyzed the assessment performed in children with chest pain, highlighting unnecessary examinations.
methodsWe enrolled children with chest pain admitted to our emergency department between January 2019 and May 2021. We collected demographic and clinical characteristics and findings on physical examinations, laboratory tests, and diagnostic evaluations. Then, we compared the number of accesses, causes, and instrumental assessments of chest pain between the pre-COVID-19 era and the COVID-19 era.
resultsA total of 111 patients enrolled (mean age: 119.8 ± 40.48 months; 62 males). The most frequent cause of chest pain was idiopathic (58.55%); we showed a cardiac origin in 4.5% of the cases. Troponin determination was performed in 107 patients, and the value was high only in one case; chest X-rays in 55 cases and echocardiograms in 25 cases showed pathological findings, respectively, in 10 and 5 cases. Chest pain accesses increased during the COVID-19 era (
conclusionsThe increase in accesses for chest pain during the COVID-19 pandemic confirms that this symptom generates anxiety among parents. Furthermore, our findings demonstrate that the evaluation of chest pain is still extensive, and new chest pain assessment protocols in the pediatric age group are needed.
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