Stroke in critical COVID-19 patients: a cautionary tale from the frontlines
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Firas Jafri; Wilbert S. Aronow; Anant Jain; Ravi Manglani; Dipak Chandy; Fawaz Al-Mufti
- Source
- Archives of Medical Sciences. Atherosclerotic Diseases
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Isolation (health care)
business.industry
Transmission (medicine)
SARS-CoV-2
coronavirus
COVID-19
General Medicine
Disease
medicine.disease
medicine.disease_cause
stroke
Intensive care
medicine
Research Letter
In patient
cerebrovascular accident
Intensive care medicine
business
Stroke
Coronavirus
- Language
- ISSN
- 2451-0629
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