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5. Conclusions
Seizures with fever due to SARS-CoV-2 were more common in older
children compared with seizures due to other viruses. Seizure charac
teristics and neurologic sequelae do not differ in children with and those
without COVID-19. In general, EEG monitoring was used less during
COVID-19 for infection control measures. The neurological manifesta
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treatment and management of COVID-19 in the future.
Declaration of Competing Interest
The authors declare that they have no known competing financial
interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence
the work reported in this paper.
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to thank all the staff who treated and cared
for the patients. We especially thank the staff in the Department of
Emergency and General Pediatrics and Department of Pediatric Critical
Care Medicine of Hyogo Prefectural Kobe Children’s Hospital. In addi
tion, we would like to thank Editage (www.editage.com) for English
language editing.
Financial support
This work was partly supported by JSPS KAKENHI [grant number
JP22K09119] and a Grant-in-Aid [grant number 2020C02] from the
Japan Intractable Diseases (Nanbyo) Research Foundation to MN, and a
Grant-in-Aid for Research on Measures for Intractable Diseases [grant
number 21FC1005] from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare to
HN.
Data statement
Data not available/The data that has been used is confidential.
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