Ischaemic stroke ‘uncommon’ in COVID-19
Patients hospitalised with the infection, however, have a poor prognosis if they do experience stroke, New York doctors say
Ischaemic stroke appears to be uncommon in patients hospitalised with COVID-19, according to data from a New York healthcare system.
Doctors from three comprehensive stroke centres in New York City compared the clinical characteristics of patients with stroke and a diagnosis of COVID-19 with two groups of control patients with stroke who did not have the infection.
Overall, 32 of 3556 patients (0.9%) hospitalised with COVID-19 had radiologically proven ischaemic stroke, the team reported in Stroke.
Stroke was the main reason for admission in 44% of these patients, while COVID-19 symptoms were the reason for admission in the remainder.
