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Bazuaye-Ekwuyasi EA, Camacho AC, Saenz Rios F, Torck A, Choi WJ, Aigbivbalu EE, Mehdi MQ, Shelton KJ, Radhakrishnan GL, Radhakrishnan RS, Swischuk LE. Intussusception in a child with COVID-19 in the USA. Emerg Radiol 2020; 27:761-764. [PMID: 33025218 PMCID: PMC7538184 DOI: 10.1007/s10140-020-01860-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/17/2020] [Accepted: 09/27/2020] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
Abstract
COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus strain SARS-CoV-2 that emerged in late 2019, has resulted in a global pandemic. COVID-19 was initially believed to occur less frequently in children with relatively mild disease. However, severe disease and varied presentations have been reported in infected children, one of such being intussusception. There have only been three reported cases of intussusception in the pediatric population infected with COVID-19. In this paper, we will discuss the management and treatment of a novel fourth case of COVID-19-associated intussusception. This case is the first reported in the USA and suggests that COVID-19 may be implicated in the development of intussusception. Pediatricians should consider the possibility of intussusception when a child with COVID-19 presents with abdominal pain.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA.
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- School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- School of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Surgery, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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- Department of Radiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Blvd, Galveston, TX, 77555, USA
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Ray P, Torck A, Quigley L, Wangzhou A, Neiman M, Rao C, Lam T, Kim JY, Kim TH, Zhang MQ, Dussor G, Price TJ. Comparative transcriptome profiling of the human and mouse dorsal root ganglia: an RNA-seq-based resource for pain and sensory neuroscience research. Pain 2019; 159:1325-1345. [PMID: 29561359 DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000001217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 213] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
Abstract
Molecular neurobiological insight into human nervous tissues is needed to generate next-generation therapeutics for neurological disorders such as chronic pain. We obtained human dorsal root ganglia (hDRG) samples from organ donors and performed RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) to study the hDRG transcriptional landscape, systematically comparing it with publicly available data from a variety of human and orthologous mouse tissues, including mouse DRG (mDRG). We characterized the hDRG transcriptional profile in terms of tissue-restricted gene coexpression patterns and putative transcriptional regulators, and formulated an information-theoretic framework to quantify DRG enrichment. Relevant gene families and pathways were also analyzed, including transcription factors, G-protein-coupled receptors, and ion channels. Our analyses reveal an hDRG-enriched protein-coding gene set (∼140), some of which have not been described in the context of DRG or pain signaling. Most of these show conserved enrichment in mDRG and were mined for known drug-gene product interactions. Conserved enrichment of the vast majority of transcription factors suggests that the mDRG is a faithful model system for studying hDRG, because of evolutionarily conserved regulatory programs. Comparison of hDRG and tibial nerve transcriptomes suggests trafficking of neuronal mRNA to axons in adult hDRG, and are consistent with studies of axonal transport in rodent sensory neurons. We present our work as an online, searchable repository (https://www.utdallas.edu/bbs/painneurosciencelab/sensoryomics/drgtxome), creating a valuable resource for the community. Our analyses provide insight into DRG biology for guiding development of novel therapeutics and a blueprint for cross-species transcriptomic analyses.
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- Pradipta Ray
- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.,Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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- School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA
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Srivastava S, Potla S, Torck A, Zhang M, Dussor G, Ray P, Price T. (278) A potential role for eIF4A in regulation of nociceptor plasticity: a motif-based genome-wide search for eIF4A targets. The Journal of Pain 2016. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2016.01.184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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