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. 2021 Jan;37(1):114-116.
doi: 10.6515/ACS.202101_37(1).20201025A.

Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ting-Wei Lin  1   2 , Meng-Ta Tsai  1 , Hsuan-Yin Wu  2 , Jun-Neng Roan  1 , Chwan-Yau Luo  1   2
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Mechanical Complications of Acute Myocardial Infarction during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ting-Wei Lin et al. Acta Cardiol Sin. 2021 Jan.
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The annual trend in the percentage of surgically repaired mechanical complications of acute MI cases compared to the total cardiac surgical cases from 2015 to 2020. Error bar and shaded grey zone indicate 95% CIs of the percentage during COVID-19 pandemic era (January 2020 to May 2020) and the pre-COVID era (January 2015 to December 2019), respectively.
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