key: cord-0899493-5yd2vr05
authors: Lazaros, George; Oikonomou, Evangelos; Theofilis, Panagiotis; Theodoropoulou, Alexandra; Triantafyllou, Konstantinos; Charitos, Christos; Charalambous, Georgios; Papanikolaou, Aggelos; Gastouniotis, Ioannis; Siasos, Gerasimos; Vlachopoulos, Charalambos; Tousoulis, Dimitris
title: The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on adult cardiac surgery procedures
date: 2020-07-15
journal: Hellenic J Cardiol
DOI: 10.1016/j.hjc.2020.07.001
sha: f46e13e1474f023558c20539f7ecf49935ffd635
doc_id: 899493
cord_uid: 5yd2vr05

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The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, originally observed in 1 Wuhan, China, has led to an unprecedented overload of healthcare systems [1, 2] . The In the case of cardiac surgery, previous reports have highlighted the impact of 10 prolonged time on the surgical waiting list on mortality [3] [4] [5] [6] . Therefore, we aimed to 11 assess the effect of COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac surgery workload in Greece, a 12 country that has remarkably managed to contain the COVID-19 by rapid and effective Table 2) . 51 In conclusion, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in considerable delays 

Coronavirus in China

The continuing 2019-nCoV 65 epidemic threat of novel coronaviruses to global health -The latest 2019 novel coronavirus 66 outbreak in Wuhan, China

Mortality and 68 morbidity of patients on the waiting list for coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Critical evaluation on 71 proper antithrombotic treatment in different groups of patients undergoing vascular 72 surgery

Radial artery as a graft for coronary artery bypass 74 surgery in the era of transradial catheterization

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