Cerebrovascular events and outcomes in hospitalized patients with COVID-19: The SVIN COVID-19 Multinational Registry.
James E SieglerPere CardonaJuan Francisco ArenillasBlanca TalaveraAna N GuillenAlba Chavarría-MirandaMercedes de LeraPriyank KhandelwalIvo BachPratit PatelAmit SinglaManuel Requena RuizMarc RiboDinesh V JillellaSrikant RangarajuRaul G NogueiraDiogo C HaussenAlejandro R VazquezXabier UrraSergio AmaroLuis S RománJesse M ThonRyna ThenEmma SanbornNatalia Perez de la OssaMònica MillànIsaac N RuizOssama Yassin MansourMohammed MegahedCristina TiuElena O TerecoasaRăzvan A RaduThanh N NguyenGioacchino CurialeArtem KaliaevAlexandra L CzapJacob SebaughAlicia M ZhaDavid S LiebeskindSantiago Ortega-GutierrezMudassir FarooquiAmeer E HassanLaurie PrestonMary S PattersonSaif BushnaqOsama ZaidatTudor G JovinPublished in: International journal of stroke : official journal of the International Stroke Society (2020)
COVID-19 is associated with a small but significant risk of clinically relevant cerebrovascular events, particularly ischemic stroke. The mortality rate is high for COVID-19-associated cerebrovascular complications; therefore, aggressive monitoring and early intervention should be pursued to mitigate poor outcomes.