Category: Ischemic Stroke

Some COVID-19 patients have brain complications, study suggests

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Authors: Mary Van Beusekom | News Writer | CIDRAP News  | Jun 26, 2020 Some COVID-19 patients, including those younger than 60 years old, appear to develop neurologic and neuropsychiatric complications such as stroke, brain inflammation, psychosis, and dementia-like symptoms, according to a study published yesterday in The Lancet Psychiatry. The early-stage study of 153 hospitalized patients with confirmed, probable, […]

Coronavirus and the Nervous System

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What is SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19? What do we know about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 on the nervous system? What are the immediate (acute) effects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 on the brain? What is the typical recovery from COVID-19? What are possible long-term neurological complications of COVID-19? How do the long-term effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection/COVID-19 relate […]

The Impact of the Covid 19 Pandemic on Cerebrovascular Disease: CORD-Papers-2021-06-28

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Abstract:            Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) causes a systemic disease that affects nearly all organ systems through infection and subsequent dysregulation of the vascular endothelium. One of the most striking phenomena has been a coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)associated coagulopathy. Given these findings, questions naturally emerged about the prothrombotic impact of COVID-19 on cerebrovascular […]