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. 2021 May-Jun;62(3):231-233.
doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2020.07.001. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on adult cardiac surgery procedures

George Lazaros  1 , Evangelos Oikonomou  2 , Panagiotis Theofilis  3 , Alexandra Theodoropoulou  4 , Konstantinos Triantafyllou  5 , Christos Charitos  6 , Georgios Charalambous  4 , Aggelos Papanikolaou  3 , Ioannis Gastouniotis  4 , Gerasimos Siasos  7 , Charalambos Vlachopoulos  3 , Dimitris Tousoulis  3
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The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on adult cardiac surgery procedures

George Lazaros et al. Hellenic J Cardiol. 2021 May-Jun.
No abstract available

Keywords: COVID-19; Cardiac surgery procedures; Lockdown.

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Data from cardiac surgery departments before and during the time of COVID-19 outbreak in Greece. Panel A: Cardiac surgeries according to date before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Greece. Panel B: Etiology of cardiac surgeries as a percentage of the total cardiac surgeries according to date before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Greece. Panel C: Cardiac surgeries according to emergency before and during the COVID-19 outbreak in Greece.
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