Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Implantation of Intra-Cardiac Devices in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients in the Western of Romania
<i>Background and Objectives</i>: COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted public health services worldwide, determining a significant decrease of elective cardiovascular (CV) procedures, especially in patients with associated chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus (DM). <i>Material...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2021-05-01
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| Series: | Medicina |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/1648-9144/57/5/441 |
| Summary: | <i>Background and Objectives</i>: COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted public health services worldwide, determining a significant decrease of elective cardiovascular (CV) procedures, especially in patients with associated chronic diseases such as diabetes mellitus (DM). <i>Materials and Methods</i>: This study was first started in 2019 in the western of Romania, to analyze the differences regarding the implantations of intra-cardiac devices such as permanent pacemakers (PPM), cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), or implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICD) in 351 patients with and without DM and the situation was reanalyzed at the end of 2020. <i>Results</i>: of the first 351 patients with and without DM. 28.20% of these patients had type 2 DM (<i>p</i> = 0.022), exceeding more than twice the prevalence of DM in the general population (11%). Patients with DM were younger (<i>p</i> = 0.022) and required twice as often CRT (<i>p</i> = 0.002) as non-diabetic patients. The state of these procedures was reanalyzed at the end of 2020, a dramatic decrease of all new device implantations being observed, both in non-diabetic and in patients with type 2 DM (79.37%, respectively 81.82%). <i>Conclusions</i>: COVID-19 pandemic determined a drastic decrease, with around 75% reduction of all procedures of new intra-cardiac devices implantation, both in non-diabetics, this activity being reserved mostly for emergencies. |
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| ISSN: | 1010-660X 1648-9144 |