Impact of COVID-19 on percutaneous coronary intervention for ST-elevation myocardial infarction, Heart

Study (n=34,127) found decline by 43% in the number of PCI procedures for STEMI in April 2020 vs the average between 2017 and 2019, but the in-hospital mortality rate was not higher during the lockdown (3.5% vs 4.8% before the lockdown).
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