Management of acute ischemic stroke in patients with COVID-19 infection: Insights from an international panel

A corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) has infected 986,776 persons as of April 2nd, 2020 over a period of 4  months. There is a possibility that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection increases the risk of stroke similar to other respiratory tract infections [1]. Approximately 5% of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 infection suffer from stroke with over 80% of them being ischemic stroke [2]. T he reported mortality is 39% in patient with stroke [2] and COVID-19 infection which is much higher than the mortality observed in patients with stroke without COVID-19 infection [3].

Source: The American Journal of Emergency Medicine - May 9, 2020 Category: Emergency Medicine Authors: Adnan I. Qureshi, Foad Abd-Allah, Fahmi Alsenani, Emrah Aytac, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Alfonso Ciccone, Camilo R. Gomez, Erdem Gurkas, Chung Y. Hsu, Vishal Jani, Liqun Jiao, Adam Kobayashi, Jun Lee, Jahanzeb Liaqat, Mikael Mazighi, Rajsrinivas Parthasara Source Type: research