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COVID-19 in children ranging from asymptomatic to a multi-system inflammatory disease

A single-center study

Walaa Shahin, Walaa Rabie, Osama Alyossof, Mohammed Alasiri, Mohamed Alfaki, Elamin Mahmoud, Muwaffak Hijazi, Huda El Faraidi and Hassan Alahmari
Saudi Medical Journal March 2021, 42 (3) 299-305; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200625
Walaa Shahin
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Walaa Rabie
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Osama Alyossof
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Mohammed Alasiri
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Mohamed Alfaki
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Elamin Mahmoud
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Muwaffak Hijazi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Huda El Faraidi
From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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Hassan Alahmari
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vol. 42 no. 3 299-305
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200625
PubMed 
33632909

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 7, 2020
  • Accepted January 20, 2021
  • Published online February 24, 2021.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License (CC BY-NC), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Author Information

  1. Walaa Shahin, MD⇑,
  2. Walaa Rabie, MD,
  3. Osama Alyossof, MD,
  4. Mohammed Alasiri, MD,
  5. Mohamed Alfaki, MD, MRCPCH,
  6. Elamin Mahmoud, MD, MRCPI,
  7. Muwaffak Hijazi, MD,
  8. Huda El Faraidi, MD and
  9. Hassan Alahmari, MD
  1. From the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin), Faculty of Medicine, from the Department of Clinical and Chemical Pathology (Rabie), Kasr Alainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt; and from the Department of Pediatrics (Shahin, Alyossof, Alasiri, Alfaki, Mahmoud, Hijazi, El Faraidi, Alahmari), Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Walaa Shahin, Department of Pediatrics, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. E-mail: walaashahin76{at}gmail.com ORCID ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1040-3666
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Saudi Medical Journal Mar 2021, 42 (3) 299-305; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2021.42.3.20200625
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