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01-10-2020 | COVID-19 | Letter to the Editor

Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: should we delay cartilage regenerative procedures and accept the consequences, or can we find a new normality?

Authors: Francesca Vannini, Antonio Mazzotti, Niccolò Stefanini, Cesare Faldini

Published in: International Orthopaedics | Issue 10/2020

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic changed elective surgery routine. During the initial spread of the novel coronavirus, elective surgery has been stopped and only emergency and trauma and oncologic procedures were allowed. Following the decrease of the contagion curve, elective surgery is slowly being recovered. The hospitals should create a pre-hospitalization path to identify possible infected patient and further postpone surgery. In this setting, cartilage repair surgery should not be neglected, because this could potentially lead to an increase of patients needing major joint replacement surgery.

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Title: Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic: should we delay cartilage regenerative procedures and accept the consequences, or can we find a new normality?
Authors: Francesca Vannini
Antonio Mazzotti
Niccolò Stefanini
Cesare Faldini
Publication date: 01-10-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: COVID-19
Published in: International Orthopaedics / Issue 10/2020
Print ISSN: 0341-2695
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5195
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00264-020-04741-4

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