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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zorzi, Alessandro
• Vio, Riccardo
• Rivezzi, Francesco
• Falzone, Pasquale V
• Giordani, Andrea S
• Condello, Chiara
• Dellino, Carlo M
• Deola, Petra
• Gallucci, Marco
• Giannattasio, Alessia
• Licchelli, Luca
• Lupasco, Diana
• Montonati, Carolina
• Ravagnin, Alberto
• Sinigiani, Giulio
• Torreggiani, Gianpaolo
• Vianello, Riccardo
• Migliore, Federico
• Famoso, Giulia
• Babuin, Luciano
• Cacciavillani, Luisa
• Iliceto, Sabino

Titel

Characteristics and hospital course of patients admitted for acute cardiovascular diseases during the coronavirus disease-19 outbreak

Ist Teil von

• Journal of cardiovascular medicine (Hagerstown, Md.), 2021-01, Vol.22 (1), p.29-35

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• During the coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) outbreak in spring 2020, people may have been reluctant to seek medical care fearing infection. We aimed to assess the number, characteristics and in-hospital course of patients admitted for acute cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 outbreak. We enrolled all consecutive patients admitted urgently for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure or arrhythmias from 1 March to 31 May 2020 (outbreak period) and 2019 (control period). We evaluated the time from symptoms onset to presentation, clinical conditions at admission, length of hospitalization, in-hospital medical procedures and outcome. The combined primary end point included in-hospital death for cardiovascular causes, urgent heart transplant or discharge with a ventricular assist device. A similar number of admissions were observed in 2020 (N = 210) compared with 2019 (N = 207). Baseline characteristics of patients were also similar. In 2020, a significantly higher number of patients presented more than 6 h after symptoms onset (57 versus 38%, P < 0.001) and with signs of heart failure (33 versus 20%, P = 0.018), required urgent surgery (13 versus 5%, P = 0.004) and ventilatory support (26 versus 13%, P < 0.001). Hospitalization duration was longer in 2020 (median 10 versus 8 days, P = 0.03). The primary end point was met by 19 (9.0%) patients in 2020 versus 10 (4.8%) in 2019 (P = 0.09). Despite the similar number and types of unplanned admissions for acute cardiac conditions during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak compared with the same period in 2019, we observed a higher number of patients presenting late after symptoms onset as well as longer and more complicated clinical courses.