COVID-19 infection in children with cancer and stem cell transplant recipients in Turkey: A nationwide study

Rejin Kebudi; Nilgün Kurucu; Deniz Tuğcu; Şadan Hacısalihoğlu; Tunç Fışgın; Süheyla Ocak; Gülnur Tokuç; Gül Nihal Özdemir; Ceyhun Bozkurt; Dilek İnce; Seda Aras; Ali Ayçiçek; Başak Adaklı Aksoy; Nihal Karadaş; Gülyüz Öztürk; Mehmet Fatih Orhan; Eda Ataseven; Sinan Akbayram; Ebru Yılmaz; Özlem Tüfekçi; Sema Vural; Arzu Akyay; Aylin Canbolat Ayhan; Suar Kılıç; Veysiye Hülya Uzel; Yeter Düzenli; Elif Güler Kazancı; Can Acıpayam; Murat Elli; Atilla Tanyeli; Zeynep Karakas; Ayper Somer; Ateş Kara

doi:10.1002/pbc.28915

COVID-19 infection in children with cancer and stem cell transplant recipients in Turkey: A nationwide study

Pediatr Blood Cancer. 2021 Jun;68(6):e28915. doi: 10.1002/pbc.28915. Epub 2021 Feb 3.

Authors

Rejin Kebudi¹, Nilgün Kurucu², Deniz Tuğcu³, Şadan Hacısalihoğlu⁴, Tunç Fışgın⁵, Süheyla Ocak⁶, Gülnur Tokuç⁷, Gül Nihal Özdemir⁴, Ceyhun Bozkurt⁵, Dilek İnce⁸, Seda Aras⁷, Ali Ayçiçek⁴, Başak Adaklı Aksoy⁵, Nihal Karadaş⁹, Gülyüz Öztürk¹⁰, Mehmet Fatih Orhan¹¹, Eda Ataseven¹², Sinan Akbayram¹³, Ebru Yılmaz¹⁴, Özlem Tüfekçi¹⁵, Sema Vural¹⁶, Arzu Akyay¹⁷, Aylin Canbolat Ayhan¹⁸, Suar Kılıç¹⁹, Veysiye Hülya Uzel²⁰, Yeter Düzenli²¹, Elif Güler Kazancı²², Can Acıpayam²³, Murat Elli²⁴, Atilla Tanyeli²⁵, Zeynep Karakas³, Ayper Somer²⁶, Ateş Kara²⁷

Affiliations

¹ Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Institute of Oncology, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Department of Pediatric Oncology, Cancer Institute, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁴ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sağlık Bilimleri University Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Pediatric Hematology Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation, Altınbaş University Medical Park Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁶ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Cerrahpaşa University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁷ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Marmara University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
⁸ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
⁹ Department of Pediatric Hematology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
¹⁰ Department of Pediatric Hematology and Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation, Acıbadem Altunizade Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
¹¹ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sakarya University Faculty of Medicine, Serdivan, Turkey.
¹² Department of Pediatric Oncology, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
¹³ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Gaziantep University Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep, Turkey.
¹⁴ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Erciyes University Faculty of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey.
¹⁵ Department of Pediatric Hematology, Dokuz Eylül University Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey.
¹⁶ Department of Pediatric Oncology, Sağlık Bilimleri University Hamidiye Şişli Etfal Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
¹⁷ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, İnönü University Faculty of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey.
¹⁸ Department of Pediatric Hematology, İstanbul Medeniyet University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
¹⁹ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sağlık Bilimleri University Ümraniye Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
²⁰ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Dicle University Faculty of Medicine, Turkey.
²¹ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sağlık Bakanlığı Erzurum Training and Research Hospital, Erzurum, Turkey.
²² Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, Sağlık Bilimleri University Bursa Yüksek İhtisas Training and Research Hospital, Bursa, Turkey.
²³ Department of Pediatric Hematolology-Oncology, Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş, Turkey.
²⁴ Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, İstanbul Medipol University, Istanbul, Turkey.
²⁵ Department of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation, Memorial Şişli Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
²⁶ Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease, İstanbul University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey.
²⁷ Department of Pediatric Infectious Disease, Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.

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Publication types

Letter
Multicenter Study

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
COVID-19 / complications*
COVID-19 / epidemiology
COVID-19 / therapy
Child
Child, Preschool
Cross-Sectional Studies
Female
Humans
Infant
Male
Neoplasms / complications*
Neoplasms / epidemiology
Neoplasms / therapy
Retrospective Studies
SARS-CoV-2 / drug effects
SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
Stem Cell Transplantation*
Treatment Outcome
Turkey / epidemiology

Substances

Antiviral Agents