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ArticleHealthcare (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Peripheral Artery Disease Causes More Harm to Patients than COVID-19.

Mohammad Mahdi Kasiri, Martina Mittlboek, Giurgiana-Aura Giurgea, Norbert Fortner, Philip Lirk, Wolf Eilenberg, Bernd Gollackner, Christoph Neumayer

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Article in Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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8 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Mohammad Mahdi KasiriDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1184-6303
Martina MittlboekSection for Clinical Biometrics, Centre for Medical Statistics, Informatics, and Intelligent Systems, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Giurgiana-Aura GiurgeaDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Clinical Divisions of Angiology, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Norbert FortnerDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Philip LirkDepartment of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Wolf EilenbergDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-9322-6193
Bernd GollacknerDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
Christoph NeumayerDepartment of General Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0003-1407-4185
Medical University of Vienna · ATBrigham and Women's Hospital · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: To optimize our strategic planning, we aimed to investigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the treatment of patients with peripheral artery disease (PAD) at our tertiary care hospital. Methods: We performed a retrospective single-center cohort study. In total, 1210 patients were included: 611 patients admitted between March and December 2020, compared to retrospective data from 599 patients from the same period in 2019. Results: Emergency admissions involving patients with advanced stage PAD increased significantly during the pandemic period of 2020, compared to the same period in 2019 (p < 0.0098). This increase was accompanied by increased limb amputations performed during the first lockdown, post-lockdown and the second lockdown in 2020, compared to respective time periods in 2019 (p < 0.0003, p < 0.0004, p = 1). No SARS-CoV-2 infection was observed among patients with PAD during the observation period. Conclusions: Strict lockdown protocols adversely affected the care of PAD patients, with persisting aftereffects, including increased emergency admission with unsuccessful revascularization attempts leading to limb amputation, even after the peak of the pandemic had passed. We believe that providing continuous care to PAD patients, even in times of global pandemics, will prevent the unfavorable outcomes observed during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

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amputationCOVID-19pandemicperipheral artery diseaseSARS-CoV-2vascular disorders

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