[The effects of quarantine on anxiety and emotional symptoms. Results of an online survey].

Background: Quarantines may exacerbate the presence of emotional symptoms or anxiety.

Aim: To explore the relation between time spent in lockdown and development of depressive and anxiety symptoms.

Material And Methods: A survey including the GAD anxiety and PHQ-9 depression scores was answered online by 1,488 subjects aged 36 ± 14 years (74% women), invited to participate through social networks.

[Sociodemographic risk factors of hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome].

Background: Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome (HCPS) is caused by new world hantaviruses, among which Andes hantavirus (ANDV) is endemic to Chile and Southern Argentina. The disease caused by ANDV produces plasma leakage leading to enhanced vascular permeability and has a high case fatality rate (35%), mainly due to respiratory failure, pulmonary edema and myocardial dysfunction, hypoperfusion and shock. Host sociodemographic and genetic factors might influence the course and outcome of the disease.

[Mineral metabolism in patients on chronic peritoneal dialysis].

Introduction: Children with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and receiving peritoneal dialysis (PD) have disorders of mineral metabolism that impact their growth, survival and cardiovascular functions. New molecular markers offer a better understanding of the pathophysiology of this disease.

Objective: To characterize some components of mineral metabolism, with emphasis on FGF23/Klotho and cardiovascular functions (CV) of these patients.

[Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in a Chilean public hospital].

Background: The only accepted treatment for acute ischemic stroke is thrombolysis with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA). It was implemented in Chile in 1996, although its use was mainly restricted in Chile to private clinics. Recently, at year 2009, we have implemented this treatment in a public hospital.

[Hantavirosis: clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric patients in Chile].

Background: The first cases of Hantavirus cardiopulmonary syndrome in children were described in the United States and represented 8% of the total reported cases; in Chile, the proportion of pediatric cases represents 15% of all national cases.

Aim: To describe the epidemiology and clinical course of 82 children reported to the Chilean Ministry of Health up to 2007 and to characterize more extensively a subgroup of 24 children whose detailed clinical data were available.

Results: Forty patients were under 10 years old.