The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on adult cardiac surgery procedures

• George Lazaros,
• Evangelos Oikonomou,
• Panagiotis Theofilis,
• Alexandra Theodoropoulou,
• Konstantinos Triantafyllou,
• Christos Charitos,
• Georgios Charalambous,
• Aggelos Papanikolaou,
• Ioannis Gastouniotis,
• Gerasimos Siasos,
• Charalambos Vlachopoulos,
• Dimitris Tousoulis

Affiliations

George Lazaros

Corresponding author. George Lazaros, Vasilissis Sofias 114, PO 11528, Hippokration Hospital, Athens, Greece. Tel:+30 213 2088099; Fax: +30 2132088676.; 1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Evangelos Oikonomou

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece; Emergency Department, Hippokration’ General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Panagiotis Theofilis

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Alexandra Theodoropoulou

Emergency Department, Hippokration’ General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Konstantinos Triantafyllou

Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hippokration General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Christos Charitos

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, “Evangelismos” General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece

Georgios Charalambous

Emergency Department, Hippokration’ General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Aggelos Papanikolaou

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Ioannis Gastouniotis

Emergency Department, Hippokration’ General Hospital, Athens, Greece

Gerasimos Siasos

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece; Cardiovascular Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Charalambos Vlachopoulos

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece

Dimitris Tousoulis

1st Cardiology Clinic, ‘Hippokration’ General Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, School of Medicine, Athens, Greece