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Guía de recomendación ACCHED-SCHGE para el funcionamiento de las unidades de endoscopia durante el brote de coronavirus (COVID-19)

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020
The outbreak of COVID-19 disease has recently spread from its original place in Wuhan, Hubei province, China, to the entire world, and has been declared to be a pandemic by the World Health Organization in March 2020. All countries in America, in particular Chile, show an important increase in COVID-19 c...

Recomendaciones para el manejo de pacientes con enfermedad Inflamatoria Intestinal (EII) y COVID-19

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020
The new Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) appeared in China in December 2019. Since then and until April 2020 it spread worldwide affecting more than three million people. Its exponential rise is still growing all over the world, taking thousands of lives. SARS-CoV-2 is very contagious, person to person, by dropl...

Recomendaciones para manejo de pacientes con enfermedad hepática crónica y trasplantados hepáticos durante pandemia por COVID-19

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020
The SARS-CoV-2 virus and the associated disease COVID-19 has quickly become a pandemic. People with underlying chronic diseases or in an immunosupressed state are at risk of having a worse outcome. Cirrhotic patients and liver transplant recipients are considered to be in this higher risk group due to th...

Manifestaciones gastrointestinales de pacientes infectados con el nuevo Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020
The pandemic of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has caused more than 2.5 millions of confirmed cases worldwide, with a mortality rate around 7%. Most cases appear to be mild with the most common symptoms being fever, dry cough, myalgia, fatigue, and dyspnea but can result in more severe disease. Also, t...

Enfermedad celíaca y el nuevo Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020
To date, it has not been described that celiac disease (CD) increases the risk of contagion by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 nor the severity of the disease. The main risk factors for severe disease for this coronavirus are old male patients (> 65 years) with hypertension, diabetes, obesity, smoking, lu...

Reflexiones sobre la experiencia venezolana, impacto social y económico, de la pandemia del coronavirus en un mundo globalizado

Salud bienestar colect; 4 (2), 2020
En el presente trabajo se realiza una reflexión de la experiencia venezolana frente a la pandemia del COVID-19. Se parte del análisis del contexto económico previo y de las políticas públicas en salud y los cambios ocurridos en los últimos 20 años. La situación existente al inicio de...

De la crisis de los fundamentos, a los fundamentos de una crisis civilizatoria más allá de la Modernidad. COVID 19 como catalizador en Chile

Salud bienestar colect; 4 (2), 2020
Con este trabajo intentamos una aproximación crítica a las tensiones que caracterizan este hoy que sobrevivimos, precipitado por la pandemia del Covid 19 como catalizador inesperado de la crisis civilizatoria que parece atravesamos como Humanidad. Para ello contrastamos la crisis ...