id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-275531-88iqxzqc Yu, Xinyu Management of acute aortic dissection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from an epicenter in Wuhan, China 2020-05-10 .txt text/plain 569 45 52 title: Management of acute aortic dissection during the COVID-19 pandemic: Experience from an epicenter in Wuhan, China During the subsequent 3 months, more than 50,000 cases of COVID-19 had emerged in Wuhan alone, which had a substantial effect on the clinical management of some life-threatening emergencies, such as acute aortic dissection, because of the following challenges. 3 Hence, patients with acute aortic dissection could potentially be carriers of SARS-Cov-2 (the pathogen of COVID-19) and might cause a spread of nosocomial infections in hospitals. Thus, the remaining medical resources for treating other diseases (including acute aortic dissection) were rather limited in the particular circumstances in Wuhan during the pandemic period. Coping with these challenges, our team successfully performed surgery to treat four patients with acute Stanford type A aortic dissection during the COVID-19 pandemic. Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China ./cache/cord-275531-88iqxzqc.txt ./txt/cord-275531-88iqxzqc.txt