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Stroke in critical COVID-19 patients: a cautionary tale from the frontlines

INTRODUCTION: Although Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a disease of the respiratory system in its transmission and clinical manifestations, physicians have also reported a tropism toward the nervous system. METHODS: Neurological symptoms can occur as one of many systemic manifestati...

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Autores principales: Jain, Anant, Jafri, Firas, Manglani, Ravi, Al-Mufti, Fawaz, Aronow, Wilbert S., Chandy, Dipak
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Termedia Publishing House 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33644484
http://dx.doi.org/10.5114/amsad.2020.102423
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Although Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily a disease of the respiratory system in its transmission and clinical manifestations, physicians have also reported a tropism toward the nervous system. METHODS: Neurological symptoms can occur as one of many systemic manifestations of a critical form of the disease or in isolation as the predominant presenting complaint. RESULTS: We report a series of 6 patients who suffered significant cerebrovascular accidents while being treated for critical COVID-19 in the intensive care units of a quaternary care hospital in New York’s Hudson valley. CONCLUSIONS: This series demonstrates how a relatively rare but catastrophic neurological complication can occur in patients with COVID-19 while they are being managed for their more common problems such as respiratory and renal failure.