March 10, 2020

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: facing the pandemic together as citizens and cardiovascular practitioners

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

• Biondi-Zoccai et al describe the epidemiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions used, and clinical outcomes and associated complications of COVID-19 infection in Italy. The critical differential diagnoses for physicians is provided to proactively diagnose, risk-stratify, and manage patients with COVID-19 while not disregarding all other important cardiovascular conditions, which may well be worsened by the disease.

Bionda-Zoccai et al. (Mar 9, 2020). SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19: facing the pandemic together as citizens and cardiovascular practitioners. Minerva Cardioangiologica. Pre-print downloaded from https://doi.org/10.23736/S0026-4725.20.05250-0