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. 2022 Sep-Oct:67:76-78.
doi: 10.1016/j.hjc.2022.07.002. Epub 2022 Jul 8.

Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac electrophysiological ablation procedures in Greece - Data from the Hellenic Society of Cardiology Ablation Registry

Vassilios P Vassilikos  1 , Georgios Giannopoulos  2 , Nikolaos Fragakis  1 , Antonis Billis  3 , Michalis Efremidis  4 , Konstantinos Letsas  4 , Themistoklis Maounis  4 , Anna Kostopoulou  4 , Georgios Andrikopoulos  5 , Sokratis Pastromas  5 , Apostolos Katsivas  6 , Charalambos Kossyvakis  7 , Eleftherios Kallergis  8 , Emmanouel Kanoupakis  8 , Panagiotis Ioannidis  9 , Stelios Tzeis  10 , Dimosthenis Avramidis  10 , Ioannis Papagiannis  10 , Spyridon Deftereos  11 , Eftychia Symeonidou  11 , Dimitrios Tsiachris  12 , George Theodorakis  13 , Ioannis Rassias  13 , Dimitrios Lysitsas  14 , Eleni Chatzinikolaou  14 , Nikolaos Mezilis  14 , Stylianos Paraskevaidis  15 , Spyros Kourouklis  16 , Theodoros Apostolopoulos  16 , Dimosthenis Katritsis  16 , Sophia Chatzidou  17 , Lilian Mantziari  18 , Georgios Leventopoulos  19 , Ioannis Chiladakis  19 , George Kourgiannidis  20 , George Stavropoulos  21 , Sotirios Xydonas  22 , Charilaos Ginos  23 , Athanasios Kotsakis  24 , Giannis Baltogiannis  25 , Antonis S Manolis  26 , Skevos Sideris  26 , Konstantinos Gatzoulis  26
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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on cardiac electrophysiological ablation procedures in Greece - Data from the Hellenic Society of Cardiology Ablation Registry

Vassilios P Vassilikos et al. Hellenic J Cardiol. 2022 Sep-Oct.
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Caseloads of ablation procedures in private and public sector institutions in 2019 (“pre-COVID-19”) and 2020 (“COVID-19”), as reported in the Hellenic Society of Cardiology Ablation Registry.
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