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ArticleRevista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes2022

Clinical-epidemiological changes in patients with non-traumatic acute abdomen during the COVID-19 pandemic: a retrospective study.

Gustavo Rodrigues Alves Castro, Tiago Augusto Zwierzikowski, João Gabriel DA Silva Lemes, Valeria Midori Gutoski Yuki, Kauana Oliveira Gouveia, Camila Roginski-Guetter

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Article in Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Gustavo Rodrigues Alves Castro- Hospital do Trabalhador, Serviço de Cirurgia Geral - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4815-1425
Tiago Augusto Zwierzikowski- Hospital do Trabalhador, Serviço de Cirurgia Geral - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1068-7323
João Gabriel DA Silva Lemes- Hospital do Trabalhador, Serviço de Cirurgia Geral - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9306-5206
Valeria Midori Gutoski Yuki- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6117-5531
Kauana Oliveira Gouveia- Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná - Curitiba - PR - Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9582-9975
Camila Roginski-Guetter- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Baltimore - Maryland - Estados Unidos.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7918-4580
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná · BRJohns Hopkins University · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivewe intend to demonstrate the clinical alterations and the postoperative evolution in patients with acute abdomen non-traumatic in conservative or surgical treatment during the pandemic compared to a similar period in the last year.

methoda single-center retrospective study, including patients who received clinical-surgical treatment at Hospital do Trabalhador diagnosed with acute abdomen between March and August 2020 and a similar period in 2019.Variables studied ranged from demographic data to indices of social isolation.

results515 patients were included, 291 received treatment in a pre-pandemic period and 224 during. There was not statistical difference in relation to comorbidities (p=0.0685), time to diagnosis and seeking medical help. No statistical differences were observed in terms of days of hospitalization (p = 0.4738) and ICU need (p=0.2320). Regarding in-hospital deaths, there was statistical relevance in the age above 60 years (p=0.002) and there were more deaths during the pandemic period (p=0.032). However, when we analyze the factors associated with the number of days until diagnosis by a physician, there was no statistical difference.

conclusionthe analyzed data showed that the pandemic period and age over 60 years were the variables that increased the odds ratio for the in-hospital death outcome. However, the length of stay, days in intensive care unit and postoperative surgical complications showed no significant difference.

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Abdomen, AcuteCOVID-19Hospital MortalityHumansIntensive Care UnitsLength of StayMiddle AgedPandemicsPostoperative ComplicationsRetrospective Studies

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