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letter . 2020 Jun 5:qcaa049. doi: 10.1093/ehjqcco/qcaa049
Emergency hospital admissions and interventional treatments for heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias in Germany during the Covid-19 outbreak Insights from the German-wide Helios hospital network
Andreas Bollmann
q1,✉, Sven Hohenstein
q1, Andreas Meier-Hellmann
q2, Ralf Kuhlen
q3, Gerhard Hindricks
q1; Helios hospitals, Germany
Andreas Bollmann, MD, PhD
q1
Heart Center Leipzig and Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig Germany
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Sven Hohenstein, PhD
q1
Heart Center Leipzig and Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig Germany
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Andreas Meier-Hellmann, MD
q2
Helios Kliniken, Berlin, Germany
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Gerhard Hindricks, MD
q1
Heart Center Leipzig and Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig Germany
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Heart Center Leipzig and Leipzig Heart Institute, Leipzig Germany
q2
Helios Kliniken, Berlin, Germany
q3
Helios Health, Berlin, Germany
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Corresponding author: Andreas Bollmann, MD, PhD, Heart Center Leipzig, Strümpellstr. 39, 04289 Leipzig, Germany. Phone: ++49 341 865 1410, Fax: ++49 341 865 1460, Email: andreas.bollmann@helios-gesundheit.de
Received 2020 May 18; Accepted 2020 May 29.
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