A new study found Americans are more likely to have surgery during a pandemic if they are vaccinated, the hospital staff are vaccinated, the surgery is urgent and the surgery is an outpatient procedure.
Examples of mitral annual calcification (MAC) visualized using echocardiography. Image from the journal Echocardiography
"For clinicians, suspicion for valve diseases should be increased and evaluations carefully performed for patients with MAC," according to one Mayo Clinic cardiologist.
The study's authors examined data from more than 1.4 million patients, noting that pulmonary embolism response teams appear to be playing a significant role.