Acute infective endocarditis during COVID-19 pandemic time: The dark side of the moon.
J Card Surg
; 37(5): 1168-1170, 2022 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1666322
ABSTRACT
The COVID-19 pandemic has remarkably impacted the hospital management and the profile of patients suffering from acute cardiovascular syndromes. Among them, acute infective endocarditis (AIE) represented a rather frequent part of these urgent/emergent procedures. The paper by Liu et al. has clearly shown the higher risk features which patients with a diagnosis of AIE presented at hospital admission during the first part (first and second waves) of the outbreak, often requiring challenging operations, but fortunately not associated with the worse outcome if compared to results obtained before the SARS-2 pandemic. The report discussed herein presents several other aspects worth discussion and comments, particularly in relation to hospital management and postdischarge outcome which certainly deserve to be highlighted, but also further investigations.
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International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Endocarditis
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Endocarditis, Bacterial
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COVID-19
Type of study:
Cohort study
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Observational study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
J Card Surg
Journal subject:
Cardiology
Year:
2022
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Jocs.16281
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