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cord-256975-ma9abdj8	Motterle, Giovanni	The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on urological emergencies: a single-center experience	2020-05-23		.txt	text/plain	2726	134	46	METHODS: we retrospectively reviewed urgent urological consultations requested by the Emergency Department (ED) of Padua University Hospital in the 36-day period between February 22nd and March 30th, 2020 and compared them to the prior year cases within a similar time frame (February 24th to March 31st, 2019). We thus hypothesized that during the COVID-19 outbreak daily consultations requested by the ED were reduced compared to the same period in 2019, possibly because of more "appropriate" access to the service during the pandemic, intended as patients presenting to the ED for real urgent needs. During the COVID-19 period, the patients seeking urgent urological consult were older compared to the past year (median age 72 vs 64, p = 0.035) and there were different diagnoses of admission/discharge (p = 0.002), with almost one third (29%) presenting for urinary retention, compared to the 14.3% of the last year.	./cache/cord-256975-ma9abdj8.txt	./txt/cord-256975-ma9abdj8.txt