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Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on acute heart failure admissions and mortality: a multicentre study (COV‐HF‐SIRIO 6 study)
Document Type
article
Source
ESC Heart Failure, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 721-728 (2022)
Subject
Heart failure
COVID‐19
In‐hospital mortality
Hospitalization
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
RC666-701
Language
English
ISSN
2055-5822
Abstract
Abstract Aims The coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic has changed the landscape of medical care delivery worldwide. We aimed to assess the influence of COVID‐19 pandemic on hospital admissions and in‐hospital mortality rate in patients with acute heart failure (AHF) in a retrospective, multicentre study. Methods and results From 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2020, a total of 101 433 patients were hospitalized in 24 Cardiology Departments in Poland. The number of patients admitted due to AHF decreased by 23.4% from 9853 in 2019 to 7546 in 2020 (P