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Decline in acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding during COVID-19 pandemic after initiation of lockdown in Austria.
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- Increasing the low-risk threshold for patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding during the COVID-19 pandemic: a prospective, multicentre feasibility study.Frontline gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Prevalence, predictors and outcomes of bleeding events in patients with COVID-19 infection on anticoagulation: Retrospective cohort study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2021Article
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- Monitoring drug consumption in Innsbruck during coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) lockdown by wastewater analysis.The Science of the total environment · 2021Article
- Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gastrointestinal endoscopy in the Netherlands: analysis of a prospective endoscopy database.Endoscopy · 2021Article
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- The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on gastrointestinal diseases: a single-center cross-sectional study in central Greece.Annals of gastroenterology · 2021Article
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- Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Acute Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding in Xingtai City.Gastroenterology research and practice · 2021Article
- COVID-19 and Gastrointestinal Disease: Implications for the Gastroenterologist.Digestive diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundCOVID-19 has spread rapidly around the world. The Austrian government implemented a lockdown on 16 March to contain further spread of the disease. We investigated the effects of lockdown on acute upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding in Austria.
methodsWe contacted 98 Austrian hospitals performing emergency endoscopies. The hospitals were asked to report upper GI endoscopies performed for recent hematemesis, melena, or both, and exhibiting endoscopically visible signs of bleeding. The study period was from 3 weeks before (calendar Week 9) to 3 weeks after (Week 14) initiation of the lockdown.
results61 % of Austrian hospitals, and importantly all major state hospitals, responded. A total of 575 upper GI bleedings occurred during the 3 weeks before and 341 during the 3 weeks after initiation of lockdown (40.7 % reduction). There was a 54.6 % decline in nonvariceal bleeding events at Week 14 compared with Week 9 (89 vs. 196), whereas rates of variceal hemorrhage did not change (15 vs. 17).
conclusionsNational lockdown resulted in a dramatic decrease in upper GI bleeding events in Austrian hospitals.
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