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. 2020 Jul 14;76(2):227-229.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2020.05.022. Epub 2020 May 15.

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Acute Aortic Dissections in New York: A Matter of Public Health

Ismail El-Hamamsy, Derek R Brinster, Joseph J DeRose, Leonard N Girardi, Kazuhiro Hisamoto, Mohammed N Imam, Shinobu Itagaki, Paul A Kurlansky, Christopher Lau, Samantha Nemeth, Mathew Williams, Benjamin A Youdelman, Hiroo Takayama

The COVID-19 Pandemic and Acute Aortic Dissections in New York: A Matter of Public Health

Ismail El-Hamamsy et al. J Am Coll Cardiol. .
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Trend of Type A Repair Volume (A) Variation in monthly volumes of surgically treated acute type A aortic dissections (AAD) (red line, left vertical axis) and coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) cases (blue bar, right vertical axis) in New York City from January 1, 2018 to April 15, 2020. (B) Decrease in average monthly volumes before and after COVID-19 (p < 0.05).
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