Stroke etiologies in patients with COVID-19: the SVIN COVID-19 multinational registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with a small but clinically significant risk of stroke, the cause of which is frequently cryptogenic. In a large multinational cohort of consecutive COVID-19 patients with stroke, we evaluated clinical predictors of cryptogenic stroke, short-term functional outcomes and in-hospital mortality among patients according to stroke etiology.

Methods

We explored clinical characteristics and short-term outcomes of consecutively evaluated patients 18 years of age or older with acute ischemic stroke (AIS) and laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 from 31 hospitals in 4 countries (3/1/20-6/16/20).

Results

Of the 14.483 laboratory-confirmed patients with COVID-19, 156 (1.1%) were diagnosed with AIS. Sixty-one (39.4%

SUBMITTER: Ramos-Araque ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7846488 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature