The ChoCO-W prospective observational global study: Does COVID-19 increase gangrenous cholecystitis?

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G 85 , Kolla CC 85 , Lucchi A 86 , Agostinelli L 86 , Taddei A 87 , Fortuna L 87 , Agostini C 87 , Licari L 88 , Viola S 89 , Callari C 90 , Laface L 91 , Abate E 91 , Casati M 91 , Anastasi A 92 , Canonico G 92 , Gabellini L 92 , Tosi L 93 , Guariniello A 94 , Zanzi F 94 , Bains L 95 , Sydorchuk L 96 , Iftoda O 96 , Sydorchuk A 96 , Malerba M 97 , Costanzo F 97 , Galleano R 97 , Monteleone M 98 , Costanzi A 98 , Riva C 98 , Walędziak M 99 , Kwiatkowski A 99 , Czyżykowski Ł 99 , Major P 100 , Strzałka M 100 , Matyja M 100 , Natkaniec M 100 , Valenti MR 101 , Di Vita MDP 101 , Sotiropoulou M 102 , Kapiris S 102 , Massalou D 103 , Veroux M 104 , Volpicelli A 104 , Gioco R 104 , Uccelli M 105 , Bonaldi M 105 , Olmi S 105 , Nardi M 106 , Livadoti G 106 , Mesina C 107 , Dumitrescu TV 107 , Ciorbagiu MC 107 , Ammendola M 108 , Ammerata G 108 , Romano R 108 , Slavchev M 109 , Misiakos EP 110 , Pikoulis E 110 , Papaconstantinou D 110 , Elbahnasawy M 111 , Abdel-Elsalam S 112 , Felsenreich DM 113 , Jedamzik J 113 , Michalopoulos NV 114 , Sidiropoulos TA 114 , Papadoliopoulou M 114 , Cillara N 115 , Deserra A 115 , Cannavera A 115 , Negoi I 116 , Schizas D 117 , Syllaios A 117 , Vagios I 117 , Gourgiotis S 118 , Dai N 118 , Gurung R 118 , Norrey M 118 , Pesce A 119 , Feo CV 119 , Fabbri N 119 , Machairas N 120 , Dorovinis P 120 , Keramida MD 120 , Mulita F 121 , Verras GI 121 , Vailas M 121 , Yalkin O 122 , Iflazoglu N 122 , Yigit D 122 , Baraket O 123 , Ayed K 123 , Ghalloussi MH 123 , Patias P 124 , Ntokos G 124 , Rahim R 125 , Bala M 126 , Kedar A 126 , Sawyer RG 127 , Trinh A 127 , Miller K 127 , Sydorchuk R 128 , Knut R 128 , Plehutsa O 128 , Liman RK 129 , Ozkan Z 129 , Kader SA 130 , Gupta S 131 , Gureh M 131 , Saeidi S 132 , Aliakbarian M 132 , Dalili A 132 , Shoko T 133 , Kojima M 133 , Nakamoto R 133 , Atici SD 134 , Tuncer GK 134 , Kaya T 134 , Delis SG 135 , Rossi S 136 , Picardi B 136 , Del Monte SR 136 , Triantafyllou T 137 , Theodorou D 137 , Pintar T 138 , Salobir J 138 , Manatakis DK 139 , Tasis N 139 , Acheimastos V 139 , Ioannidis O 140 , Loutzidou L 140 , Symeonidis S 140 , de Sá TC 141 , Rocha M 141 , Guagni T 142 , Pantalone D 142 , Maltinti G 142 , Khokha V 143 , Abdel-Elsalam W 144 , Ghoneim B 144 , López-Ruiz JA 145 , Kara Y 146 , Zainudin S 147 , Hayati F 147 , Azizan N 147 , Khei VTP 148 , Yi RCX 148 , Sellappan H 148 , Demetrashvili Z 149 , Lekiashvili N 149 , Tvaladze A 149 , Froiio C 150 , Bernardi D 150 , Bonavina L 150 , Gil-Olarte A 145 , Grassia S 151 , Romero-Vargas E 145 , Bianco F 151 , Gumbs AA 3 , Dogjani A 152 , Agresta F 153 , Litvin A 154 , Balogh ZJ 155 , Gendrikson G 154 , Martino C 156 , Damaskos D 157 , Pararas N 158 , Kirkpatrick A 159 , Kurtenkov M 154 , Gomes FC 7 , Pisanu A 6 , Nardello O 6 , Gambarini F 22 , Aref H 3 , Angelis ND 160 , Agnoletti V 161 , Biondi A 162 , Vacante M 162 , Griggio G 162 , Tutino R 163 , Massani M 163 , Bisetto G 164 , Occhionorelli S 165 , Andreotti D 165 , Lacavalla D 165 , Biffl WL 166 , Catena F 161

Affiliations 

  • 1 Department of Emergency, Digestive and Metabolic Minimally Invasive Surgery, Poissy and Saint Germain en Laye Hospitals, Poissy, France. desimone.belinda@gmail.com
  • 2 The Research Office, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates., United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE
  • 3 Department of Emergency, Digestive and Metabolic Minimally Invasive Surgery, Poissy and Saint Germain en Laye Hospitals, Poissy, France
  • 4 Department of General Surgery, Santa Maria del Soccorso Hospital, San Benedetto del Tronto, Ascoli Piceno, Italy
  • 5 Department of General Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy
  • 6 Department of Surgical Science, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
  • 7 Faculdade de Ciência Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora, Hospital Universitario Terezinha de Jesus (SUPREMA), Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • 8 Ernest E. Moore Shock Trauma Center at Denver Health, Denver, CO, USA
  • 9 Department of Surgery, Royal Alexandra Hospital, Paisley and Golden Jubilee National Hospital, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland
  • 10 Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  • 11 Department of General Surgery, The Rambam Academic Hospital, Haifa, Israel
  • 12 Department of General and Emergency Surgery, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
  • 13 Alfredo- Espinosa Urduliz Hospital, Urduliz, Spain
  • 14 General Surgery Unit ASL Toscana Centro, Santo Stefano Hospital, Prato, Italy
  • 15 Universidad de Sucre, Clínica Santa María, Sincelejo, Colombia
  • 16 Emergency Surgery Department, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK
  • 17 Department of Surgery, School of Medical Sciences and Hospital USM, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Kubang Kerian, Kelantan, Malaysia
  • 18 UOC of General and Minimally Invasive Surgery, Hospital "San Paolo", Largo Donatori del Sangue 1, 00053, Civitavecchia, Rome, Italy
  • 19 SOD Chirurgia dell'Apparato Digerente, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy
  • 20 Department of Surgery, University of Catania, Policlinico "G. Rodolico - San Marco" Hospital, Catania, Italy
  • 21 U.O.C. of General Surgery, "Carlo Urbani" Hospital, Jesi, AN, Italy
  • 22 Hospital "Istituto Città di Pavia", Pavia, Italy
  • 23 Department of General Surgery, Hospital Sultan Ismail Petra, 18000, Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Malaysia
  • 24 Chirurgia Generale e Mininvasiva, San Polo Monfalcone, Monfalcone, GO, Italy
  • 25 Hospital Universitario Príncipe de Asturias, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
  • 26 RIMU, Medical University of Plovdiv, UMHAT Eurohospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 27 Ospedale San Giovanni Decollato Andosilla - ASL, Civita Castellana, Viterbo, VT, Italy
  • 28 UOC Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale "Madonna del Soccorso", San Benedetto del Tronto, AP, Italy
  • 29 Lviv Regional Clinical Hospital, Lviv, Ukraine
  • 30 Lorenzo Bonomo Hospital, ASL BAT, Andria, Puglia, Italy
  • 31 Generall Surgery Unit, Science of Health Department, "Mater Domini" Hospital, University "Magna Graecia" Medical School, Viale Europa, 88100, Germaneto, Catanzaro, Italy
  • 32 Emergency Surgery Unit, Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Seville, Spain
  • 33 Clinic for Surgery, University Clinical Center Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • 34 Santa Croce and Carle Hospital, Cuneo, Italy
  • 35 Chirurgia Generale d'Urgenza e PS - AOU Cittá della Salute e della Scienza, Turin, Italy
  • 36 General and Emergency Surgery, ASMN IRCCS REGGIO EMILIA, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 37 Surgery Unit 2, Regional Hospital Treviso, DISCOG, University of Padua, Treviso, Italy
  • 38 U.O. Chirurgia Generale e d'Urgenza Ospedale San Valentino, Montebelluna, Treviso, Italy
  • 39 Department of Surgery, G. Da Saliceto Hospital, AUSL Piacenza, Piacenza, Italy
  • 40 Styliani-Aikaterini Vederaki, Third Department of Surgery, "Tzaneio" General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece
  • 41 Mehmet Bayrak, Clinic for Surgery, Private Ortadogu Hospital, Adana, Turkey
  • 42 Clinic for Radiology, Private Medline Hospital, Adana, Turkey
  • 43 Department of General Surgery, Kestel State Hospital, Bursa, Turkey
  • 44 Department of General Surgery, Bagcilar Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Science, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 45 General Surgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 46 1St Department of Surgery, Kavala General Hospital, Kavala, Greece
  • 47 UO Chirurgia 1, Dipartimento Chirurgico, Arcispedale Sant'Anna, Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria'di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  • 48 Sakarya Training and Research Hospital, Sakarya, Turkey
  • 49 Department of General Surgery ASL 4, Lavagna Hospital, Genoa, Italy
  • 50 Samsun Training and Research Hospital, University of Samsun, Samsun, Turkey
  • 51 Department of General Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Sakarya University, Serdivan, Turkey
  • 52 General and Emergency Surgery Unit, San Donato Hospital, Arezzo, Italy
  • 53 Department of Surgery, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, South Korea
  • 54 Elias University Emergency Hospital, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Bucharest, Romania
  • 55 General and Oncologic Surgery, Morgagni-Pierantoni Hospital, AUSL Romagna, Via C. Forlanini 34, 47121, Forlì, Italy
  • 56 Emergency Surgery, ASST Valle Olona, Busto Arsizio, Italy
  • 57 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences for Children and Adults, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia School of Medicine AOU Policlinico Di Modena, Modena, Italy
  • 58 UOC General Surgery, Hospital Civil of Sondrio, ASST Valtellina e Alto Lario, Sondrio, Italy
  • 59 Department of Surgery, San Carlo Borromeo Hospital, ASST Santi Paolo e Carlo, Milan, Italy
  • 60 AUSL Reggio Emilia, Ospedale Sant'Anna, Castelnuovo ne Monti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
  • 61 Department of Abdominal Surgery, Vladimir City Emergency Hospital, Vladimir, Russia
  • 62 Policlinico Universitario Umberto I, Rome, Italy
  • 63 Chirurgia generale e d'urgenza, Ospedale Infermi di Rimini, AUSL Romagna, Rimini, Italy
  • 64 Department of General Surgery, Emergencies and New Technologies, Baggiovara Civil Hospital, Modena, Italy
  • 65 UOC Chirurgia d'Urgenza, AOU San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona, Salerno, Italy
  • 66 Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy
  • 67 General, Emergency and Transplant Surgery Department, ASST-Settelaghi and University of Insubria, Varese, Italy
  • 68 General Surgery Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Policlinico Bari - Italy, Bari, Italy
  • 69 Department of Surgery, Hospital de Clinicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay
  • 70 Unit of HepatoBilioPancreatic and Digestive Surgery, Department of Health Sciences, San Paolo Hospital, University of Milan, Via Di Rudinì 8, 20142, Milan, Italy
  • 71 Department of General Surgery, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences Luigi Sacco, Luigi Sacco University Hospital, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy
  • 72 HPB Unit, Department of Surgery, Hospital Canselor Tuanku Muhriz, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
  • 73 College of Medicine, Tawam Hospital, UAE University, Al-Ain, UAE
  • 74 Department of Surgery, University Hospital Centre, Zagreb, Croatia
  • 75 Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, London, UK
  • 76 2nd Department of General Surgery, ASST Spedali Civili of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
  • 77 Department of General, Gastrointestinal, Oncologic Surgery and Transplantology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
  • 78 Division of Trauma Surgery, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas (Unicamp), Campinas, Brazil
  • 79 Division of General Surgery, Western Paraná University Hospital (Huop-Unioeste), Cascavel, Brazil
  • 80 School of Medicine, Erzincan University, Erzincan, Turkey
  • 81 King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan
  • 82 Department of General Surgery, University General Hospital of Heraklion, 71110, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
  • 83 Department of General Surgery, Adana City Training and Research Hospital, University of Health Sciences, Adana, Turkey
  • 84 Kuwaiti Specialized Hospital, Khartoum, Sudan
  • 85 Surgical Department, Koutlimbaneio and Triantafylleio General Hospital of Larissa, Larisa, Greece
  • 86 U.O. Chirurgia Generale Ospedale "Ceccarini" Riccione, Riccione, Italy
  • 87 Hepatobiliary Surgery, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy
  • 88 Department of Surgical, Oncological and Oral Sciences (DICHIRONS), Policlinico P. Giaccone, University of Palermo, Via Liborio Giuffré 5, 90127, Palermo, Italy
  • 89 University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy
  • 90 Department of Surgery, Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Via Messina Marine, 197, 90123, Palermo, Italy
  • 91 Department of General Surgery, Vittorio Emanuele III Hospital, Carate Brianza - ASST Brianza, Carate Brianza, Italy
  • 92 Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale San Giovanni Di Dio, Florence, Italy
  • 93 Residency Program in General Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
  • 94 Section of Emergency Surgery, Department of Surgery, S.Maria delle Croci Hospital Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
  • 95 Department of Surgery, Maulana Azad Medical College and Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, 110002, India
  • 96 Bukovinian State Medical University, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
  • 97 Ospedale Santa Corona, ASL 2, Savona, Italy
  • 98 Andrea Costanzi, Carlo Riva, O.U. of General Surgery, San Leopoldo Mandic Hospital, Merate, ASST, Lecco, Italy
  • 99 Department of General, Oncological, Metabolic and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine, Warsaw, Poland
  • 100 Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland
  • 101 U.O. General Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria "Policlinico - San Marco", Catania, Italy
  • 102 3Rd Surgical Department, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • 103 Department of Emergency Surgery, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice (CHU de Nice), Université Côte d'Azur, Nice, France
  • 104 General Surgery, Azienda Policlinico San Marco, Catania, Italy
  • 105 General and Oncological Surgery Department, San Marco Hospital GSD, Zingonia, BG, Italy
  • 106 San Giovanni Calibita Hospital- Fondazione Fatebenefratelli, Rome, Italy
  • 107 Department of Surgery, Emergency County Hospital of Craiova, Craiova, Romania
  • 108 Science of Health Department, Digestive Surgery Unit, "Mater Domini" Hospital, University "Magna Graecia" Medical School, Viale Europa, 88100, Germaneto, Catanzaro, Italy
  • 109 Department of General Surgery, University Hospital Eurohospital, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
  • 110 3Rd Department of Surgery, Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 111 Emergency Medicine and Traumatology Department, Tanta University Faculty of Medicine, Tanta, Egypt
  • 112 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
  • 113 Division of Visceral Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
  • 114 4Rd Department of Surgery Attikon University Hospital, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 115 Surgery Department, Santissima Trinità Hospital, Cagliari, Italy
  • 116 General Surgery Department, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Emergency Hospital of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
  • 117 First Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Laiko General Hospital, 11527, Athens, Greece
  • 118 Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
  • 119 Department of Surgery, Delta Hospital, Azienda USL of Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  • 120 2Nd Department of Propaedeutic Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, General Hospital Laiko, Athens, Greece
  • 121 Department of Surgery, General University Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece
  • 122 Department of Surgical Oncology and Gastroenterological Surgery, Bursa City Hospital, Bursa, Turkey
  • 123 Department of General Surgery, Habib Bougatfa Hospital, University Tunis El Manar, Bizerte, Tunisia
  • 124 2nd Department of Surgery, General Hospital of Athens "G.Gennimatas", Athens, Greece
  • 125 Department of Surgery, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia, Nilai, Malaysia
  • 126 Department of General Surgery and Trauma, Hadassah Medical Center and Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel
  • 127 Western Michigan University School of Medicine, Kalamazoo, USA
  • 128 Regional Emergency Hospital, Chernivtsi, Ukraine
  • 129 General Surgery Clinic, Elazig Fethi Sekin City Hospital, Elazig, Turkey
  • 130 Egypt and NMC Specialty Hospital Al Ain, Ain Shams University, Al-Ain, UAE
  • 131 Government Medical College and Hospital, Chandigarh, India
  • 132 Surgical Oncology Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
  • 133 Department of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Acute Care Surgery Center, Adachi Medical Center, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo, Japan
  • 134 Department of General Surgery, University of Health Sciences Tepecik Training and Research Hospital, Izmir, Turkey
  • 135 HPB Unit Konstantopouleio Hospital St Olga, Athens, Greece
  • 136 Department of General and Emergency Surgery, San Filippo Neri Hospital, ASL Roma 1, Rome, Italy
  • 137 Department of Surgery, Hippocration General Hospital of Athens, University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 138 Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 139 Vasileios Acheimastos, Athens Naval and Veterans Hospital, Athens, Greece
  • 140 4Th Department of Surgery, Medical School Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, General Hospital "George Papanikolaou", Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 141 General Surgery Department, Centro Hospitalar Do Tâmega e Sousa Penafiel, Penafiel, Portugal
  • 142 Department of general surgery, Careggi University Hospital, Florence, Italy
  • 143 Emergency Surgery Department, City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus
  • 144 Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Department, Faculty of Medicine, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafrelsheikh, Egypt
  • 145 Angeles Gil-Olarte, Estela Romero-Vargas, Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Seville, Spain
  • 146 General Surgery Clinic Health Sciences University Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 147 Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Queen Elisabeth Hospital, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
  • 148 Department of Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
  • 149 N.Kipshidze Central University Hospital, Tbilisi, Georgia
  • 150 IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
  • 151 General Surgery Unit, S. Leonardo Hospital, Castellammare Di Stabia, Naples, Italy
  • 152 Department of General Surgery, University Hospital of Tirana, Tirana, Albania
  • 153 Department of General Surgery, AULSS2 Trevigiana del Veneto, Ospedale di Vittorio Veneto, Vittorio Veneto, TV, Italy
  • 154 Department of Surgical Disciplines, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Regional Clinical Hospital, Kalingrad, Russia
  • 155 Department of Traumatology, John Hunter Hospital and University of Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW, Australia
  • 156 Anesthesia and Intensive Care Unit, Umberto I Hospital, AUSL Romagna, Lugo, Italy
  • 157 Department of General and Emergency Surgery, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
  • 158 Department of General Surgery, Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital, Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 159 General, Acute Care, Abdominal Wall Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery, Foothills Medical Centre, Calgary, AB, Canada
  • 160 Unit of Digestive and HPB Surgery, CARE Department, Henri Mondor Hospital and University Paris-Est, Creteil, France
  • 161 Department of General and Trauma Surgery, Bufalini Hospital, Cesena, Italy
  • 162 Department of General Surgery and Medical-Surgical Specialties, University of Catania, Catania, Italy
  • 163 Chirurgia 1; Dipartimento di Discipline Chirurgiche , Oncologiche e Stomatologiche (DI.CHIR.ON.S), Ospedale "Ca'Foncell"; Univerità degli studi di Palermo, Treviso; Palermo, Italy
  • 164 Dipartimento di Scienze Chirurgiche, Oncologiche e Gastroenterologica (DI.SC.O.G.), Chirurgia 1-Ospedale "Ca Foncello"- Treviso, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy
  • 165 Department of General Surgery, Arcispedale Sant'Anna-University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy
  • 166 Department of Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Scripps Clinic Medical Group, La Jolla, CA, USA
World J Emerg Surg, 2022 Dec 16;17(1):61.
PMID: 36527038 DOI: 10.1186/s13017-022-00466-4

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The incidence of the highly morbid and potentially lethal gangrenous cholecystitis was reportedly increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. The aim of the ChoCO-W study was to compare the clinical findings and outcomes of acute cholecystitis in patients who had COVID-19 disease with those who did not.

METHODS: Data were prospectively collected over 6 months (October 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021) with 1-month follow-up. In October 2020, Delta variant of SARS CoV-2 was isolated for the first time. Demographic and clinical data were analyzed and reported according to the STROBE guidelines. Baseline characteristics and clinical outcomes of patients who had COVID-19 were compared with those who did not.

RESULTS: A total of 2893 patients, from 42 countries, 218 centers, involved, with a median age of 61.3 (SD: 17.39) years were prospectively enrolled in this study; 1481 (51%) patients were males. One hundred and eighty (6.9%) patients were COVID-19 positive, while 2412 (93.1%) were negative. Concomitant preexisting diseases including cardiovascular diseases (p 

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