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MRI for all: Cheap portable scanners aim to revolutionize medical imaging
.news-article__hero--featured .parallax__element{ object-position: 47% 50%; -o-object-position: 47% 50%; } The patient, a man in his 70s with a shock of silver hair, lies in the neuro intensive care unit (neuro ICU) at Yale New Haven Hospital. Looking at him, you’d never know that a few days earlier a tumor was removed from his pituitary gland. The operation didn’t leave a mark because, as is standard, surgeons reached the tumor through his nose. He chats cheerfully with a pair of research associates who have come to check his progress with a new and potentially revolutionary device they are testing. The cylind...
Source: Science of Aging Knowledge Environment - February 23, 2023 Category: Geriatrics Source Type: research

A case of ischemic stroke and transient thrombocytopenia in a young female following adenoviral vector-based COVID-19 vaccination: Was the association incidental or causal?
We report a 23-year-old healthy female who developed seizures, altered sensorium, and left hemiparesis, 20 days after receiving the first dose of adenoviral vector-based COVID-19 vaccine "Covishield™." The patient had transient thrombocytopenia. The D-dimer level was 2460 ng/mL. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) demonstrated occlusion of M2 segment of the middle cerebral artery and cerebral infarction. Platelet factor-4 antibodies level was normal. Treatment with aspirin and antiepileptic drugs resulted in a remarkable recovery. This is the first Indian case report of ischemic stroke and transient thrombocytopenia followi...
Source: Primary Care - January 9, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Shweta Pandey Ravindra Kumar Garg Pooja Tripathi Hardeep S Malhotra Neeraj Kumar Source Type: research

Long-term evaluation of the COVID-19 pandemic impact on acute stroke management: an analysis of the 21-month data from a medical facility in Tokyo
ConclusionsWe did not observe long-term detrimental effects of the pandemic at this site. Prevention of hospital cluster infections remains critical to provide safe and timely acute stroke management during the pandemic.
Source: Acta Neurologica Belgica - May 26, 2022 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Acute delirium as an initial manifestation of COVID-19 patients with acute ischemic stroke: Report on two cases
We report two hospitalized cases with SARS-CoV-2 infection and elevated serum D-dimer levels having acute delirium as the initial manifestation of AIS. The diagnostic processes were challenging and time-consuming, so reperfusion therapy could not be given in the therapeutic time window. The diagnoses of AIS were finally made by brain magnetic resonance imaging which showed diffusion restriction at the right middle cerebral artery territory in both cases. Features of psychiatric complications and stroke in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients are reviewed. For the hospitalized COVID-19 patients with elevated levels ...
Source: J Formos Med Assoc - February 28, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Jin-An Huang Wen-Hsien Chen Nien-Chen Liao Chieh Liang Wu Yun-Ching Fu Po-Lin Chen Source Type: research

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis as a complication of COVID-19 infection - A case report
CONCLUSION: High index of suspicion of CVST is necessary when a patient presents with unexplained neurological manifestation following a recent COVID-19 infection to prevent from life-threatening complications. Furthermore, clinicians should not underestimate the multisystem involvement of COVID-19.PMID:35127077 | PMC:PMC8800506 | DOI:10.1016/j.amsu.2022.103326
Source: Annals of Medicine - February 7, 2022 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Suyasha Rajbhandari Saujanya Rajbhandari Avinash Chandra Pritam Gurung Pravesh Rajbhandari Basant Pant Source Type: research

COVID-19 Infection and Recurrent Stroke in Young Patients With Protein S Deficiency: A Case Report
Conclusions: SARS-CoV-2 infection potentializes the prothrombotic effect and vascular inflammation by accentuating protein S deficit. The place of steroids seems justifiable in the presence of symptoms of vasculitis in brain imaging.
Source: The Neurologist - November 1, 2021 Category: Neurology Tags: Case Report/Case Series Source Type: research

Neurological symptoms and neuroimaging alterations related with COVID-19 vaccine: Cause or coincidence?
Although vaccination against Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is still occurring, several adverse effects temporally related to these vaccines are already being reported, even if through isolated case reports. In the present study, we describe the lesions seen on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of three patients who developed neurological symptoms after receiving the ChAdOX1 nCoV-19 vaccine (Oxford/AstraZeneca). The first patient presented with an ischemic stroke in the posterior limb of the left internal capsule, two days after vaccination.
Source: Clinical Imaging - September 6, 2021 Category: Radiology Authors: Diogo Goulart Corr êa, Luis Alcides Quevedo Cañete, Gutemberg Augusto Cruz dos Santos, Romulo Varella de Oliveira, Carlos Otávio Brandão, Luiz Celso Hygino da Cruz Tags: Neuroradiology Source Type: research

Ischemic Stroke in a 29-Year-Old Patient with COVID-19: A Case Report
We reported, instead, a case of an ischemic stroke in a young woman during her hospitalization for COVID-19-related pneumonia. A 29-year-old woman presented to the emergency department of our institution with progressive respiratory distress associated with a 2-day history of fever, nausea, and vomiting. The patient was transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) where she underwent a tracheostomy for mechanical ventilation due to her severe clinical condition and her very low arterial partial pressure of oxygen. The nasopharyngeal swab test confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection. Laboratory tests showed neutrophilic leucocytosis...
Source: Case Reports in Neurology - June 10, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Progress in aorta and peripheral cardiovascular disease research
AbstractAlthough coronavirus disease 2019 seems to be the leading topic in research number of outstanding studies have been published in the field of aorta and peripheral vascular diseases likely affecting our clinical practice in the near future. This review article highlights key research on vascular diseases published in 2020. Some studies have shed light in the pathophysiology of aortic aneurysm and dissection suggesting a potential role for kinase inhibitors as new therapeutic options. A first proteogenomic study on fibromuscular dysplasia (FMD) revealed a promising novel disease gene and provided proof-of-concept for...
Source: Cardiovascular Research - April 23, 2021 Category: Cardiology Source Type: research

Acute Stroke Care in the With-COVID-19 Era: Experience at a Comprehensive Stroke Center in Japan
Conclusions: In our institute, the number of stroke admissions, workflow time metrics, and imaging modalities for reperfusion therapy were affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Source: Frontiers in Neurology - January 18, 2021 Category: Neurology Source Type: research

Multiple embolic stroke on magnetic resonance imaging of the brain in a COVID-19 case with persistent encephalopathy
The pulmonary manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection or coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are well known. The literature on neurological manifestations and complications in patients with COVID-19 has been increasing but is still sparse. At present, there are only a few reported case reports and clinical studies on neurological manifestations of COVID-19, of which ischemic stroke is one of the most common ones. Coagulopathy and vascular endothelial dysfunction have been proposed as the complications of COVID-19 which can ultimately lead to ischemic stroke.
Source: Clinical Imaging - October 5, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Apoorv Prasad, Saurabh Kataria, Samiksha Srivastava, Dhairya A. Lakhani, Shitiz Sriwastava Tags: Neuroradiology Source Type: research

Multiple embolic stroke on magnetic resonance imaging brain in a COVID-19 case with persistent encephalopathy
The pulmonary manifestations of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection or coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are well known. The literature on neurological manifestations and complications in patients with COVID-19 has been increasing but is still sparse. At present, there are only a few reported case reports and clinical studies on neurological manifestations of COVID-19, of which ischemic stroke is one of the most common ones. Coagulopathy and vascular endothelial dysfunction have been proposed as the complications of COVID-19 which can ultimately lead to ischemic stroke.
Source: Clinical Imaging - October 4, 2020 Category: Radiology Authors: Apoorv Prasad, Saurabh Kataria, Samiksha Srivastava, Dhairya A. Lakhani, Shitiz Sriwastava Tags: Neuroradiology Source Type: research