Ischemic stroke in patients that recover from COVID-19: Comparisons to historical stroke prior to COVID-19 or stroke in patients with active COVID-19 infection.

ABSTRACT:

Background and purpose

Understanding the relationship of COVID-19 to stroke is important. We compare characteristics of pre-pandemic historical stroke (Pre-C), cases in acute COVID infection (Active-C) and in patients who have recovered from COVID-19 infection (Post-C).

Methods

We interrogated the Qatar stroke database for all stroke admissions between Jan 2019 and Feb 2020 (Pre-C) to Active-C (Feb2020-Feb2021) and Post-C to determine how COVID-19 affected ischemic stroke sub-types, clinical course, and outcomes prior to, during and post-pandemic peak. We used the modified Rankin Scale (mRS) to measure outcome at 90-days (mRS 0-2 good recovery and mRS 3-6 as poor recovery). For the current analysis, we compared the clinical features and prognosis in patients with confirmed a

SUBMITTER: Akhtar N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9232148 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature