Acute cardiovascular diseases may be less likely to be considered because of the COVID-19 pandemic-our duty is first to alert, then to analyse more deeply: Response to a letter entitled "Severity of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic" from T. Imamura

Fabien Huet; Cyril Prieur; Guillaume Schurtz; Edouard Gerbaud; Stéphane Manzo-Silberman; Gerald Vanzetto; Meyer Elbaz; Victoria Tea; Grégoire Mercier; Benoît Lattuca; Claire Duflos; François Roubille

doi:10.1016/j.acvd.2020.05.004

Acute cardiovascular diseases may be less likely to be considered because of the COVID-19 pandemic-our duty is first to alert, then to analyse more deeply: Response to a letter entitled "Severity of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic" from T. Imamura

Arch Cardiovasc Dis. 2020 Jun-Jul;113(6-7):486-487. doi: 10.1016/j.acvd.2020.05.004. Epub 2020 Jun 18.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Universitaire de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France; PhyMedExp, Université de Montpellier, INSERM U1046, CNRS UMR 9214, 34295 Montpellier, France.
² Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Cardiologique Louis-Pradel, 69500 Bron, France.
³ Department of Cardiology, Institut Coeur Poumons, Hôpital Cardiologique, 59000 Lille, France.
⁴ Cardiology Intensive Care Unit and Interventional Cardiology, Hôpital Cardiologique du Haut-Lévêque, 33604 Pessac, France; Bordeaux Cardio-Thoracic Research Centre, U1045, Bordeaux University, Hôpital Xavier-Arnozan, 33600 Pessac, France.
⁵ Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Lariboisiere, 75010 Paris, France.
⁶ Department of Cardiology, Hôpital de Grenoble, 38700 La Tronche, France.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Rangueil, 31400 Toulouse, France.
⁸ Cardiology Intensive Care Unit and Interventional Cardiology, Hôpital Européen Georges-Pompidou, 75015 Paris, France.
⁹ CEPEL, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, 34090 Montpellier, France; Medico-Economic Research Unit, CHU de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, CHU de Nîmes, 30029 Nîmes, France.
¹¹ CEPEL, Université de Montpellier, CNRS, 34090 Montpellier, France; Clinical Research and Epidemiology Unit, CHU de Montpellier, Université de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France.
¹² Department of Cardiology, Hôpital Universitaire de Montpellier, 34295 Montpellier, France; PhyMedExp, Université de Montpellier, INSERM U1046, CNRS UMR 9214, 34295 Montpellier, France. Electronic address: [email protected].

No abstract available

Keywords: Acute cardiac care; Acute coronary syndrome; COVID-19; Heart failure; Insuffisance cardiaque; Intensive care unit; Soins aigus cardiaque; Syndrome coronarien aigu; Unité de soins intensifs.

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Cardiovascular Diseases*
Coronavirus Infections*
Humans
Pandemics*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology*
SARS-CoV-2