CONCLUSIONS
During lockdown period due to COVID-19 pandemics, an higher incidence of atrial and ventricular arrhythmias was observed in AICD and ICD/CRT-D patients followed up by remote monitoring . These results, probably related to lockdown social and psychological “high-stress conditions”, warrant further scientific investigation and closer monitoring of subjects with advanced cardiac disease and at risk of sudden cardiac death during periods of such restrictive daily life limitations.
Conflict of interest: none declared.