Hernando Baquero, María Elena Venegas Martinez, Lorena Velandia Forero, Fredy Neira Safi, Edgar Navarro Lechuga
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Hernando Baquero: Centro de Investigación en Pediatría y Neonatología, Programa de Neonatología, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. hbaquero@uninorte.edu.co.
María Elena Venegas Martinez: Medicina de Alta Complejidad, S. A., MACSA, Hospital Niño Jesús, Barranquilla, Colombia; Programa de Neonatología, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. malenavenegas@yahoo.es.
Lorena Velandia Forero: Medicina de Alta Complejidad, S. A., MACSA, Hospital Niño Jesús, Barranquilla, Colombia; Programa de Neonatología, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. lorenavforero@gmail.com.
Fredy Neira Safi: Medicina de Alta Complejidad, S. A., MACSA, Hospital Niño Jesús, Barranquilla, Colombia; Programa de Neonatología, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. fneiras@gmail.com.
Edgar Navarro Lechuga: Departamento de Salud Pública, Universidad del Norte, Barranquilla, Colombia. enavarro@uninorte.edu.co.
During the SARS COV-2 pandemic, the vast majority of infected patients are showing symptoms related to lung damage. At pediatric ages, especially newborns, symptoms from other organ systems without respiratory illness could make COVID-19 hard to diagnose. We are reporting three cases of newborns who were attended in the course of the mitigation phase in the emergency service of a maternal hospital in Barranquilla, Colombia, for high temperature and general compromised condition. During their clinical course, they developed gastrointestinal symptoms without showing any respiratory manifestations. They were not epidemiologically linked to a contact suspected to be a COVID-19 case and their mothers had had no respiratory symptoms since the public health emergency in our country was declared 45 days before. The absence of clinical respiratory manifestations in this group of patients with COVID-19 should draw clinicians’ attention to the need to suspect SARS CoV-2 infection in febrile newborns.
