| Literature DB >> 35637934 |
Nicole Töpfner1,2, Martin Alberer1, Tobias Ankermann1,2, Stephan Bender1,2, Reinhard Berner1,2, Jan de Laffolie1,2, Jens Dingemann1,2, Dirk Heinicke1,2, Johannes Peter Haas1,2, Markus Hufnagel1,2, Thomas Hummel1,2, Hans-Iko Huppertz1,2, Markus Knuf1,2, Robin Kobbe1,2, Thomas Lücke1,2, Joachim Riedel1,2, Josef Rosenecker1,2, Joachim Wölfle1,2, Barbara Schneider1,2, Dominik Schneider1,2, Valentin Schriever1,2, Anne Schroeder1,2, Silvia Stojanov1,2, Tobias Tenenbaum1,2, Stefan Trapp1,2, Daniel Vilser1,2, Folke Brinkmann2, Uta Behrends1,2.
Abstract
This current consensus paper for long COVID complements the existing AWMF S1 guidelines for long COVID with a detailed overview on the various clinical aspects of long COVID in children and adolescents. Members of 19 different pediatric societies of the DGKJ convent and collaborating societies together provide expert-based recommendations for the clinical management of long COVID based on the currently available but limited academic evidence for long COVID in children and adolescents. It contains screening questions for long COVID and suggestions for a structured, standardized pediatric medical history and diagnostic evaluation for patients with suspected long COVID. A time and resource-saving questionnaire, which takes the clinical complexity of long COVID into account, is offered via the DGKJ and DGPI websites as well as additional questionnaires suggested for an advanced screening of specific neurocognitive and/or psychiatric symptoms including post-exertional malaise (PEM) and myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). According to the individual medical history as well as clinical signs and symptoms a step by step diagnostic procedure and a multidisciplinary therapeutic approach are recommended.Entities:
Keywords: Children; Consensus; Germany; Long COVID; SARS-CoV-2
Year: 2022 PMID: 35637934 PMCID: PMC9131710 DOI: 10.1007/s00112-021-01408-1
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Monatsschr Kinderheilkd ISSN: 0026-9298 Impact factor: 0.416




