Ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 and racial outcome disparity in North America
J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry
.
2020 Dec;91(12):1362-1364.
doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324653.
Epub 2020 Aug 13.
Authors
Adam A Dmytriw
1
2
,
Kevin Phan
2
,
Clemens Schirmer
3
,
Fabio Settecase
4
,
Manraj K S Heran
4
,
Aslan Efendizade
5
,
Anna Luisa Kühn
6
,
Ajit S Puri
6
,
Bijoy K Menon
7
,
Mahmoud Dibas
2
,
Sanjeev Sivakumar
8
,
Ashkan Mowla
9
,
Lester Y Leung
10
,
Adel M Malek
11
,
Barbara Voetsch
12
,
Siddharth Sehgal
12
,
Ajay K Wakhloo
13
,
Hannah Wu
2
14
15
,
Andrew Xavier
16
17
,
Ambooj Tiwari
2
14
15
Affiliations
1
Neuroradiology & Neurointervention Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
[email protected]
.
2
Interventional Neuro Associates, Greenvale, NY 11548, USA.
3
Department of Neurosurgery & Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
4
Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
5
Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
6
Department of Neurointerventional Radiology, UMass Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA, United States.
7
Calgary Stroke Program, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada.
8
Department of Medicine (Neurology), Prisma Health Upstate, USC, Greenville, SC, United States.
9
Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
10
Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
11
Departments of Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
12
Department of Neurology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
13
Neurointerventional Radiology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
14
Department of Neurology, Brookdale University Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
15
Department of Neurology, Jamaica Medical Center, Richmond Hill, NY, United States.
16
Department of Neurology, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States.
17
Department of Neurology, St. Joseph Mercy Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.
PMID:
32801118
DOI:
10.1136/jnnp-2020-324653
No abstract available
Keywords:
epidemiology; infectious diseases; stroke.
Publication types
Letter
Comment
MeSH terms
Brain Ischemia* / complications
COVID-19*
Humans
Ischemic Stroke*
North America / epidemiology
Pandemics
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Stroke* / epidemiology