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. 2021 Jan:197:202-204.
doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2020.10.038. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

Major cardiovascular events in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019: Experience of a cardiovascular department of Northern Italy

Raffaello Bellosta  1 , Matteo Alberto Pegorer  2 , Luca Bettari  2 , Luca Luzzani  2 , Luca Attisani  2 , Alessandro Fossati  2 , Letizia Consoli  3 , Diego Maffeo  2 , Claudio Cuccia  2 , Paolo Terragnoli  3 , Ruth L Bush  4 , Gabriele Piffaretti  5
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Major cardiovascular events in patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019: Experience of a cardiovascular department of Northern Italy

Raffaello Bellosta et al. Thromb Res. 2021 Jan.

Abstract

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    We report a translational experience of a cardiovascular department facing MACE in COVID-19 patients.

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    Acute arterial events are the real emergency into this COVID-19 pandemic.

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    COVID-19 infection may trigger a hypercoagulable status leading to MACE and high mortality rate.

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    In this COVID-19 outbreak, the adjunct of heparin provides better survival chance independently of the infection-related drug treatment.

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The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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Fig. 1
Number of MACE cases and the overall cohort of patients stratified by COVID-19 infection and department‘s unit.(MACE = Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events; CV19 = COVID-19)
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Fig. 2
Comparison of 2019 and 2020 including the estimated overall number of patients managed at the cardiovascular department, and the comparisons stratified by underlying cardiovacsular disease. (PE = pulmonary embolism; ACS = acute cardiac syndrome; ALI = acute limb ischemia).
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