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ArticleBrazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery2021

Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic in a Brazilian High-Volume Aortic Center.

Ricardo R Dias, José Augusto Duncan Santiago, Vagner Madrini, Charles Mady, Fabio B Jatene

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Article in Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 10 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Ricardo R DiasDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
José Augusto Duncan SantiagoDepartment of Cardiomyopathies and Aortic Diseases, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Vagner MadriniDepartment of Cardiomyopathies and Aortic Diseases, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Charles MadyDepartment of Cardiomyopathies and Aortic Diseases, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
Fabio B JateneDepartment of Cardiovascular Surgery, Instituto do Coração (InCor), Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic brought an unprecedented lack of control of what was to come. The intent of this document is to provide a balance of how much was ceased to be done for patients with aortic disease, to assess the mortality of these patients, and to show what happened to those who became COVID-19 positive during their hospitalization.

methodsFrom April 1st to July 31st 2020, the worst period of the pandemic in São Paulo, Brazil, the Institute's aortic surgical patients operated on were evaluated and those were compared with patients operated during the same period in 2019.

resultsIn 2019, 88 surgeries were performed; most of them were elective (66 [75%]), 10 were urgent, and 12 were emergency surgeries. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, we operated on only 31 patients, being 74.2% non-elective surgeries (P<0,001). There was a higher mortality for patients operated on during the pandemic surge of COVID-19 (P<0,001), but it was not specifically related to infected patients.

conclusionThe COVID-19 pandemic had an impact on surgical volume and outcome of patients with aortic disease, although it did not directly increase mortality.

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COVID-19PandemicsBrazilElective Surgical ProceduresHumansSARS-CoV-2Aortic DiseasesCoronavirus InfectionsCOVID-19Elective Surgical ProceduresMortalityPandemics

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PMID34048201
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