Adriana Wegner Araya, Pamela Céspedes Fernández, Patricio Astudillo Paredes, Adriana Diettes González, Franco Diaz Rubio, Christian Scheu Gonçalves, Verónica Chauriye Kuncar, Tomás Gaete Amenábar, Marta Zamora Astudillo, Carlos Acuña Aguirre, Michele Drago Thibaut, Víctor Monreal Eloaiza, Michelangelo Lapadula Amelina, Pietro Pietroboni Fuster, Javier Varela Ortiz, Alena Gallardo Martínez, Karin Scheuch Ruiz, Andrés Manen Chinchón, María-José Villarroel Carreño
OBJECTIVES: To characterize the COVID-19 disease profile in Chilean children hospitalized in pediatric intensive care units (PICU) and to evaluate risk factors associated with severe COVID-19. PATIENTS AND METHOD: A multicenter prospective cohort study with patients 0-18 years of age with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 hospitalized in PICU. Clinical, laboratory, imaging, and therapeutic variables were recorded. We compared "mild/moderate COVID-19" with ''severe COVID-19" using median with interquartile range (IQR), Mann-Whitney U test, two-tailed Fisher's test, and forward binary multivariate analysis to adjust variables for "severe COVID-19"...
October 2023: Andes pediatrica: revista Chilena de pediatría