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Characteristics and comparisons of acute stroke in “recovered & quot; to “active COVID-19 and “pre-pandemic” in Qatar database
AbstractUnderstanding the relationship of COVID-19 to stroke is important. We compare characteristics of pre-pandemic stroke (PPS), cases in acute COVID infection (CS) and in patients who have recovered from COVID-19 infection (RCS). We interrogated the Qatar stroke database for all stroke admissions between Jan 2020 and Feb 2021 (PPS) to CS and RCS to determine how COVID-19 affected ischemic stroke sub-types, clinical course, and outcomes prior to, during and post-pandemic peak. There were 3264 cases admitted (pre-pandemic: 3111, stroke in COVID-19: 60 and recovered COVID-19 stroke: 93). Patients with CS were significantl...
Source: Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis - March 4, 2022 Category: Hematology Source Type: research

Spectrum of neuroimaging findings in COVID-19.
Abstract An outbreak of corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) began in China in December 2019, and rapidly spread to become a worldwide pandemic. Neurological complications encountered in hospitalized patients include acute arterial ischemic cerebrovascular stroke, cerebral venous thrombosis, critical illness-associated cerebral microbleeds, hypertensive hemorrhagic posterior reversible encephalopathy, meningoencephalitis/flare up of infections, flare up of multiple sclerosis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, cerebral hemodynamic/hypoxic changes such as watershed ischemic changes and hypoxic ischemic encephalo...
Source: The British Journal of Radiology - December 13, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: El Beltagi AH, Vattoth S, Abdelhady M, Ahmed I, Paksoy Y, Abou Kamar M, Alsoub H, Almaslamani M, Alkhal AL, Own A, Elsotouhy A Tags: Br J Radiol Source Type: research