Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac electronic device implantations in Northwestern Greece.
COVID-19
Cardiac implantable electronic devices
implantable cardioverter defibrillators
pacemakers
pandemic
Journal
American journal of cardiovascular disease
ISSN: 2160-200X
Titre abrégé: Am J Cardiovasc Dis
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 101569582
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2021
2021
Historique:
received:
22
05
2021
accepted:
06
08
2021
entrez:
22
9
2021
pubmed:
23
9
2021
medline:
23
9
2021
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic seems to have a significant impact on cardiovascular-related hospital visits and admissions. The effect of the ongoing pandemic on the cardiac implantable electronic device (CIED) procedures is less well studied. We recorded and compared the rates of de novo implantations and replacements of CIEDs performed by two experienced implanters in our referral center between years 2019 and 2020, as well as the periods of lockdowns in 2020 to the corresponding periods of the previous year. Our data indicate a significant decrease in CIEDs de novo implantations during the COVID-19 pandemic (year 2020) even though the replacements were increased. Both de novo implantations and replacements were markedly declined during the first lockdown period while no significant change was observed during the second lockdown period. However, urgent pacemaker implantations did not change significantly between 2020 and 2019 during these periods. Of note, in our study the total number of de novo pacemaker and CRT implantations did not change significantly between 2019 and 2020 while ICD and ILR procedures dropped significantly.
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
489-493Informations de copyright
AJCD Copyright © 2021.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
None.
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