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Nuevo coronavirus (COVID-19) en población general y pediátrica: una revisión epidemiológica: Chile 2020

Since December 2019, the outbreak of a novel coronavirus SARS Cov-2 has been reported in Wuhan, China. Currently, the new coronavirus disease has been declared a worldwide pandemic. Compared to adults, reporting of cases in pediatric patients has been significant smaller. The objective of this article is...

Recomendaciones de Asociaciones Chilenas de Endoscopia Digestiva (ACHED), de Hepatología (ACHHEP) y la Agrupación Chilena de Trabajo en Enfermedad de Crohn y Colitis Ulcerosa (ACTECCU) para el manejo de pacientes con patologías gastrointestinales en pandemia SARS-CoV-2

Gastroenterol. latinoam; 31 (1), 2020

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...