Collateral Damage: Medical Care Avoidance Behavior Among Patients With Myocardial Infarction During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

COVID-19, coronavirus disease-2019 ECG, electrocardiography EMS, emergency medical services ICU, intensive care unit LAD, left anterior descending artery LV, left ventricular MI, myocardial infarction PCI, percutaneous coronary intervention SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 STEMI, ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction acute coronary syndrome complication myocardial infarction

Journal

JACC. Case reports
ISSN: 2666-0849
Titre abrégé: JACC Case Rep
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 101757292

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Aug 2020
Historique:
received: 07 04 2020
revised: 15 04 2020
accepted: 17 04 2020
entrez: 25 8 2020
pubmed: 25 8 2020
medline: 25 8 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

The coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused an enormous strain on healthcare systems and society on a global scale. We report a new phenomenon of medical care avoidance among patients with acute coronary syndrome, which is due to concerns about contracting severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection during hospital stay, ultimately leading to dire clinical outcomes. (

Identifiants

pubmed: 32835261
doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.04.010
pii: S2666-0849(20)30369-7
pmc: PMC7252183
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

1620-1624

Commentaires et corrections

Type : CommentIn

Informations de copyright

© 2020 The Authors.

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Auteurs

Francesco Moroni (F)

Università VIta-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Mario Gramegna (M)

Coronary Intensive Care Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Silvia Ajello (S)

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Alessandro Beneduce (A)

Università VIta-Salute San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Luca Baldetti (L)

Coronary Intensive Care Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Luz Maria Vilca (LM)

Unit of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Buzzi Hospital, ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.

Alberto Cappelletti (A)

Coronary Intensive Care Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Anna Mara Scandroglio (AM)

Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Department, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.

Lorenzo Azzalini (L)

The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, New York.

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