Comparison of the course of SARS-CoV-2 infection in left ventricular assist device recipients implanted before and during COVID-19 pandemic

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland. swisniowskasmialek@gmail.com.
• ² Department of the Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and Transplantology, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland. swisniowskasmialek@gmail.com.
• ³ Department of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
• ⁴ Department of the Cardiac and Vascular Surgery and Transplantology, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland.
• ⁵ Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Medical College Faculty of Medicine, Krakow, Poland.
• ⁶ Department of the Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, Collegium Medicum Jagiellonian University, John Paul II Hospital, Krakow, Poland.