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Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital

Background: During the pandemic, our hospital became a COVID support hospital and consequently the cardiology clinic had restricted activity; thus, it received only suspect and/or patients confirmed positive with the various COVID-19 strains that were associated with a chronic/flaring cardiovascular...

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Autores principales: Cârstea, Andrei, Mită, Adrian, Forțofoiu, Mircea-Cătălin, Doica, Irina Paula, Cârstea, Doina, Diaconu, Ileana-Diana, Abu Alhija Barău, Anca, Martin, Liviu, Filip, Maria Monalisa, Golli, Andreea Loredana, Forțofoiu, Maria
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292334
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101887
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author Cârstea, Andrei
Mită, Adrian
Forțofoiu, Mircea-Cătălin
Doica, Irina Paula
Cârstea, Doina
Diaconu, Ileana-Diana
Abu Alhija Barău, Anca
Martin, Liviu
Filip, Maria Monalisa
Golli, Andreea Loredana
Forțofoiu, Maria
author_facet Cârstea, Andrei
Mită, Adrian
Forțofoiu, Mircea-Cătălin
Doica, Irina Paula
Cârstea, Doina
Diaconu, Ileana-Diana
Abu Alhija Barău, Anca
Martin, Liviu
Filip, Maria Monalisa
Golli, Andreea Loredana
Forțofoiu, Maria
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description Background: During the pandemic, our hospital became a COVID support hospital and consequently the cardiology clinic had restricted activity; thus, it received only suspect and/or patients confirmed positive with the various COVID-19 strains that were associated with a chronic/flaring cardiovascular pathology. Methods: Two batches of patients admitted during a one-year period were compared in the cardiology clinic over two different periods of time: BATCH I (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020), in a non-COVID context (BATCH I N-COV) and BATCH II (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021) comprising patients that presented with respiratory infection of SARS-CoV-2 (BATCH II COV-2), associated with chronic and/or acute cardiovascular condition. To determine the profile of the patients admitted in our clinic, we observed the following parameters: age, type of cardiac condition, and admission mode (for the N-COV group). Results: The data obtained as absolute numbers and as percentages in relation to the total number of admissions were presented in separate tables and graphs for both of the studied groups. Conclusions: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in its almost two years of evolution, has divided the medical world in two main categories: COVID and non-COVID. Admission of the patients with chronic, but non-COVID cardiac conditions, in our case, dropped to almost one-quarter when we compared the two absolute admission numbers: 1382 in the year prior to pandemic compared with only 356 in the pandemic year. We believe that the number of deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infection was infinitely higher than the reported ones and uncountable, in as much as COVID-19 did not kill only the infected patients, but it has also yielded a very large number of collateral victims among chronic patients who had no contact with the disease, but were unable to be admitted and treated for chronic heart disease.
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spelling pubmed-96014272022-10-27 Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital Cârstea, Andrei Mită, Adrian Forțofoiu, Mircea-Cătălin Doica, Irina Paula Cârstea, Doina Diaconu, Ileana-Diana Abu Alhija Barău, Anca Martin, Liviu Filip, Maria Monalisa Golli, Andreea Loredana Forțofoiu, Maria Healthcare (Basel) Article Background: During the pandemic, our hospital became a COVID support hospital and consequently the cardiology clinic had restricted activity; thus, it received only suspect and/or patients confirmed positive with the various COVID-19 strains that were associated with a chronic/flaring cardiovascular pathology. Methods: Two batches of patients admitted during a one-year period were compared in the cardiology clinic over two different periods of time: BATCH I (1 April 2019 to 31 March 2020), in a non-COVID context (BATCH I N-COV) and BATCH II (1 July 2020 to 30 June 2021) comprising patients that presented with respiratory infection of SARS-CoV-2 (BATCH II COV-2), associated with chronic and/or acute cardiovascular condition. To determine the profile of the patients admitted in our clinic, we observed the following parameters: age, type of cardiac condition, and admission mode (for the N-COV group). Results: The data obtained as absolute numbers and as percentages in relation to the total number of admissions were presented in separate tables and graphs for both of the studied groups. Conclusions: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in its almost two years of evolution, has divided the medical world in two main categories: COVID and non-COVID. Admission of the patients with chronic, but non-COVID cardiac conditions, in our case, dropped to almost one-quarter when we compared the two absolute admission numbers: 1382 in the year prior to pandemic compared with only 356 in the pandemic year. We believe that the number of deaths due to SARS-CoV-2 infection was infinitely higher than the reported ones and uncountable, in as much as COVID-19 did not kill only the infected patients, but it has also yielded a very large number of collateral victims among chronic patients who had no contact with the disease, but were unable to be admitted and treated for chronic heart disease. MDPI 2022-09-27 /pmc/articles/PMC9601427/ /pubmed/36292334 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101887 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Cârstea, Andrei
Mită, Adrian
Forțofoiu, Mircea-Cătălin
Doica, Irina Paula
Cârstea, Doina
Diaconu, Ileana-Diana
Abu Alhija Barău, Anca
Martin, Liviu
Filip, Maria Monalisa
Golli, Andreea Loredana
Forțofoiu, Maria
Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital
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title_full_unstemmed Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital
title_short Profile of Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases during the Pandemic in a Cardiology Clinic of a COVID-19 Support Hospital
title_sort profile of patients with cardiovascular diseases during the pandemic in a cardiology clinic of a covid-19 support hospital
topic Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9601427/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36292334
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/healthcare10101887
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