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cord-347835-6zx9g2io	Ashraf, Said	Acute coronary syndrome in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic	2020-06-07		.txt	text/plain	1816	106	51	Even as supportive data lags, a noticeable trend has emerged with a sudden decrease in ACS (particularly STEMI) presentations to hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic. published a multicentre observational survey from Italy examining consecutive patients admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) during the week of 12-19 March 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy, compared with the same time period in 2019. There was a significant difference in the time from symptom onset to first medical contact; 318 min during the pandemic period compared with 82.5 and 91.5 min in the previous year's cohorts. In another study from Spain, a telematic survey of 81 centres involved within a STEMI network equipped with cardiac catheterization labs showed a dramatic decline in procedural volumes during a 10-day period during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.	./cache/cord-347835-6zx9g2io.txt	./txt/cord-347835-6zx9g2io.txt