COVID-19-Associated Carotid Atherothrombosis and Stroke.

Charles Esenwa N T Cheng Evan Lipsitz Kevin Hsu R Zampolin Adam Gersten Daniel Antoniello A Soetanto K Kirchoff Ava L Liberman Peter Mabie Taha Nisar D Rahimian A Brook S K Lee N Haranhalli David J Altschul Daniel L Labovitz

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2020)

We present a radiology-pathology case series of 3 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with acute ischemic stroke due to fulminant carotid thrombosis overlying mild atherosclerotic plaque and propose a novel stroke mechanism: COVID-associated carotid atherothrombosis.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
acute ischemic stroke
sars cov
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
atrial fibrillation
pulmonary embolism
coronary artery disease
artificial intelligence
machine learning
hepatitis b virus