| Autor: |
Carlos Galvão Braga, Pedro Araújo Gonçalves, Pedro Cardoso, António Fiarresga, Lino Santos, Ana Domingues, Marco Costa, Rui Ferreira, José Duarte, Filipe Seixo, Rui Campante Teles, Hélder Pereira, João Carlos Silva, Renato Fernandes, José Baptista, Pedro Braga, João Costa, Pedro Farto e Abreu, Pedro Costa Ferreira, Graça Caires, Dinis Martins, Paulino Sousa, João Brum da Silveira |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Portuguese |
| Rok vydání: |
2023 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Portuguesa de Cardiologia, Vol 42, Iss 1, Pp 1-6 (2023) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0870-2551 |
| DOI: |
10.1016/j.repc.2021.03.021 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed an unprecedented burden on healthcare systems worldwide, changing the profile of interventional cardiology activity. Objectives: To quantify and compare the number of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) performed for acute and chronic coronary syndromes during the first COVID-19 outbreak with the corresponding period in previous years. Methods: Data on PCI from the prospective multicenter Portuguese Registry on Interventional Cardiology (RNCI) were used to analyze changes in PCI for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), non-ST-elevation acute coronary syndromes (NSTE-ACS) and chronic coronary syndromes (CCS). The number of PCIs performed during the initial period of the COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal, from March 1 to May 2, 2020, was compared with the mean frequency of PCIs performed during the corresponding period in the previous three years (2017–2019). Results: The total number of PCIs procedures was significantly decreased during the initial COVID-19 outbreak in Portugal (−36%, p |
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