PRIMARY PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION IN COVID-19 PATEINTS
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https://doi.org/10.54530/jcmc.1207Keywords:
Acute coronary syndrome, COVID-19, Percutaneous coronary interventionAbstract
Background: Coronavirus Disease 2019 is global pandemic having high morbidity and mortality. It is thought that COVID-19 can predispose high thrombus burden and lead to Acute Coronary Syndrome. The aim of this study was to compare the symptoms, angiographic characteristics and procedural outcome in COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patient undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention for acute coronary syndrome.
Methods: All the data of 121 patients who were admitted at Chitwan Medical College on April 2020 to September 2020, suffering from acute coronary syndrome who underwent PCI were collected and compared with COVID-19 positive and negative patients using SPSS version 22. The categorical variables were presented as numbers or percentages (%) and continuous variables were presented as mean ± standard deviation.
Results: Patient suffering with acute coronary syndrome with concurrent COVID-19 infections have more symptoms of fever (27.3% Vs 0.9%) and cough (27.3% Vs 2.8%, complications (45.5% Vs 7.3%), Mortality (36.4% Vs 0.9%), multi vessels thrombosis (27.3% Vs 2.8%) glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors use (27.3% Vs 0.14%) than non-COVID infection.
Conclusions: Patient with acute coronary syndrome with concurrent COVID-19 infections have high complication rate, multivessel thrombosis and death.
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