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: Received: 10 July 2022 / Approved: 12 July 2022 / Online: 12 July 2022 (03:33:22 CEST)
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Sinkovic, A.; Krasevec, M.; Šuran, D.; Marinšek, M. STEMI Patients in the First and Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in Northeast Slovenia – A Retrospective, Single Center Observational Study. Preprints2022, 2022070164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0164.v1
Sinkovic, A.; Krasevec, M.; Šuran, D.; Marinšek, M. STEMI Patients in the First and Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in Northeast Slovenia – A Retrospective, Single Center Observational Study. Preprints 2022, 2022070164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0164.v1
Sinkovic, A.; Krasevec, M.; Šuran, D.; Marinšek, M. STEMI Patients in the First and Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in Northeast Slovenia – A Retrospective, Single Center Observational Study. Preprints2022, 2022070164. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0164.v1
APA Style
Sinkovic, A., Krasevec, M., Šuran, D., & Marinšek, M. (2022). STEMI Patients in the First and Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in Northeast Slovenia – A Retrospective, Single Center Observational Study. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0164.v1
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Sinkovic, A., David Šuran and Martin Marinšek. 2022 "STEMI Patients in the First and Second Wave of Covid-19 Pandemic in Northeast Slovenia – A Retrospective, Single Center Observational Study" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202207.0164.v1
Abstract
Covid-19 pandemic affected outcome in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients in majority of countries. We aimed to assess retrospectively admissions, treatments, complications and mortality of STEMI patients in the northeast of Slovenia in the first (March-May 2020) and the second wave (October-December 2020) of Covid-19 pandemic and compare them with the data from 2019 (March-October). Comparing 2019 and both waves of Covid-19 pandemic we observed nonsignificant differences in the number of STEMI admissions, in baseline characteristics, in the use of primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), either within the first 3 (40.5%* vs 30.2% vs 25%*, *p = 0.074) and 6 hours, nonsignificant differences in TIMI III flow after primary PCI and in hospital complications, except for significant increase in hospital heart failure (23.3% vs 42%, p = 0.015) and mitral regurgitation in the second wave (10% vs 26.9%, p = 0.008) of the pandemic with nonsignificant increase in hospital mortality (8.9% vs 9.4% vs 13.6%) in both waves of the pandemic. We conclude, that with increased severity of Covid-19 pandemic in the second wave there was a longer delay to primary PCI in STEMI patients, resulting in significantly increased hospital heart failure and nonsignificantly increased hospital mortality
Medicine and Pharmacology, Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems
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