Acute cardiovascular diseases may be less likely to be considered because of the COVID-19 pandemic – our duty is first to alert, then to analyse more deeply: Response to a letter entitled “Severity of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic” from T. Imamura

Fabien Huet (1, 2) , Cyril Prieur (3) , Guillaume Schurtz (4) , Edouard Gerbaud (5) , Stéphane Manzo-Silberman (6, 7) , Gérald Vanzetto (8) , Meyer Elbaz (9) , Victoria Tea (10) , Grégoire Mercier (1, 11) , Benoit Lattuca (12, 13) , Claire Duflos (1, 11) , François Roubille (2, 1)

1 CHRU Montpellier - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Montpellier]
2 PhyMedExp - Physiologie & médecine expérimentale du Cœur et des Muscles [U 1046]
3 Hôpital Louis Pradel [CHU - HCL]
4 Hôpital cardiologique
5 CRCTB - Centre de recherche Cardio-Thoracique de Bordeaux [Bordeaux]
6 BioCANVAS / U942 - Biomarqueurs CArdioNeuroVASCulaires
7 Hôpital Lariboisière-Fernand-Widal [APHP]
8 CHUGA - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire [CHU Grenoble]
9 CHU Toulouse - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse
10 HEGP - Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou [APHP]
11 CEPEL - Centre d'Etudes Politiques Et sociaLes : Environnement, Santé, Territoires
12 CHU Nîmes - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes
13 UM - Université de Montpellier

Mots clés: Acute cardiac care; Acute coronary syndrome; COVID-19; Heart failure; Insuffisance cardiaque; Intensive care unit; Soins aigus cardiaque; Syndrome coronarien aigu; Unité de soins intensifs

Domaines: Cardiologie et système cardiovasculaire

Fabien Huet, Cyril Prieur, Guillaume Schurtz, Edouard Gerbaud, Stéphane Manzo-Silberman, et al.. Acute cardiovascular diseases may be less likely to be considered because of the COVID-19 pandemic – our duty is first to alert, then to analyse more deeply: Response to a letter entitled “Severity of cardiovascular diseases during the COVID-19 pandemic” from T. Imamura. Archives of cardiovascular diseases, 2020, pp.486-487. ⟨10.1016/j.acvd.2020.05.004⟩. ⟨hal-02889609⟩