Incidence of Febrile Seizures in Children with COVID-19

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a common cause of febrile seizures (FS), especially after the Omicron surge. This study aimed to determine the incidence of COVID-19-associated FS in children. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in patients aged below five years residing in the...

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Published inJournal of clinical medicine Vol. 12; no. 3; p. 1076
Main Authors Han, Min Jeong, Heo, Jun Ho, Hwang, Ji Seong, Jang, Young-Taek, Lee, Min, Kim, Sun Jun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 30.01.2023
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Subjects
Age
Bacterial infections
children
Children & youth
Clinical medicine
Convulsions & seizures
coronavirus disease 19
Coronaviruses
COVID-19
Epilepsy
febrile seizure
Fever
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Infections
Influenza
Laboratories
Pandemics
Patients
Population
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
Viral infections
South Korea
coronavirus disease 19
SARS-CoV-2
children
febrile seizure
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Summary:The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a common cause of febrile seizures (FS), especially after the Omicron surge. This study aimed to determine the incidence of COVID-19-associated FS in children. The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in patients aged below five years residing in the Jeonbuk province from January 2020 to June 2022 was obtained from official data provided by the Ministry of Public Administration and Security. During the same period, data on FS patients with COVID-19 were obtained from all local hospitals capable of FS treatment and were analyzed retrospectively. The number of children under five years of age in Jeonbuk was 62,772, of which 33,457 (53.2%) were diagnosed with COVID-19 during the study period. Of these, 476 patients (1.4%) required hospitalization, and 64 (0.19%, 44 boys; 68.8%: 20 girls; 31.2%) developed FS. All patients with FS presented with symptoms after the Omicron surge. Before the Omicron variant, 23.4% of the patients (89 of 381) required hospitalization; however, no children with COVID-19 were hospitalized for FS. Twenty-five patients (39.1%) had complex FS while one (1.6%) presented with febrile status epilepticus. Forty-two patients (65.6%) experienced first-time FS with an average of 1.5 convulsive events.
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ISSN:2077-0383
2077-0383
DOI:10.3390/jcm12031076