Abstract
We report data on pediatric post-COVID syndrome from a Czech
multicentric observational study. We enrolled children aged 2-18 years
with persisting respiratory symptoms (cough, dyspnoea, chest pain) more
than twelve weeks after COVID-19. Medical history, physical examination,
lung function testing, chest X-ray and blood tests were performed. In 39
enrolled children, dominant reported symptoms were exercise-induced
dyspnoea and cough. On lung function testing, we found abnormal results
in less than 15% of children and on imaging in less than 20%. From the
analysis of enrolled subjects, we identified four possible post-COVID
subgroups: “standard”, “asthmatic”, “sporty” and “polymorphous”.
Complete remission of tracked symptoms occurred within a median of 4
months in followed subjects