A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?

The province of Bergamo in Italy and in particular Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital was one of the first areas to be hit by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and experience firsthand all the different phases of the crisis. We describe the timeline of the changes in overall urological workload during the outbreak...

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Autores principales: Roscigno, Marco, Naspro, Richard, Piccichè, Antonio, Muttin, Fabio, Angiolilli, Diego, Deiana, Gianfranco, Pezzoli, Fabio, Da Pozzo, Luigi F.
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Publicado: European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Brief Correspondence
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32522412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2020.05.022
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author Roscigno, Marco
Naspro, Richard
Piccichè, Antonio
Muttin, Fabio
Angiolilli, Diego
Deiana, Gianfranco
Pezzoli, Fabio
Da Pozzo, Luigi F.
author_facet Roscigno, Marco
Naspro, Richard
Piccichè, Antonio
Muttin, Fabio
Angiolilli, Diego
Deiana, Gianfranco
Pezzoli, Fabio
Da Pozzo, Luigi F.
author_sort Roscigno, Marco
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description The province of Bergamo in Italy and in particular Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital was one of the first areas to be hit by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and experience firsthand all the different phases of the crisis. We describe the timeline of the changes in overall urological workload during the outbreak period from lockdown to the slow reopening of activities. We sought to compare the 2020 hospital scenario with normality in the same period in 2019, highlighting the rationale behind decision-making when guidelines were not yet available. While we focus on the changes in surgical volumes for both elective (oncological and noncancer) and urgent cases, we have still to confront the risk of untreated and underdiagnosed patients. PATIENT SUMMARY: We present a snapshot of changes in urology during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in our hospital in Bergamo, Italy. The effect of medical lockdown on outcomes for untreated or underdiagnosed patients is still unknown.
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spelling pubmed-72745962020-06-08 A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing? Roscigno, Marco Naspro, Richard Piccichè, Antonio Muttin, Fabio Angiolilli, Diego Deiana, Gianfranco Pezzoli, Fabio Da Pozzo, Luigi F. Eur Urol Focus Brief Correspondence The province of Bergamo in Italy and in particular Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital was one of the first areas to be hit by the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak and experience firsthand all the different phases of the crisis. We describe the timeline of the changes in overall urological workload during the outbreak period from lockdown to the slow reopening of activities. We sought to compare the 2020 hospital scenario with normality in the same period in 2019, highlighting the rationale behind decision-making when guidelines were not yet available. While we focus on the changes in surgical volumes for both elective (oncological and noncancer) and urgent cases, we have still to confront the risk of untreated and underdiagnosed patients. PATIENT SUMMARY: We present a snapshot of changes in urology during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in our hospital in Bergamo, Italy. The effect of medical lockdown on outcomes for untreated or underdiagnosed patients is still unknown. European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2020-09-15 2020-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC7274596/ /pubmed/32522412 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2020.05.022 Text en © 2020 European Association of Urology. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
spellingShingle Brief Correspondence
Roscigno, Marco
Naspro, Richard
Piccichè, Antonio
Muttin, Fabio
Angiolilli, Diego
Deiana, Gianfranco
Pezzoli, Fabio
Da Pozzo, Luigi F.
A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title_full A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title_fullStr A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title_full_unstemmed A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title_short A Snapshot from the Department of Urology in Bergamo Evaluating the Timeline of the SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak: Which Patients Are We Missing?
title_sort snapshot from the department of urology in bergamo evaluating the timeline of the sars-cov-2 outbreak: which patients are we missing?
topic Brief Correspondence
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7274596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32522412
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.euf.2020.05.022
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