Deans' stroke musings: Study reveals spectrum of COVID-19 brain complications

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

Study reveals spectrum of COVID-19 brain complications

You already have enough brain damage, you don't want these, get vaccinated.

Study reveals spectrum of COVID-19 brain complications

Brain complications including stroke and hemorrhage occur in about one in 100 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, new research suggests.

"There should probably be a low threshold to order brain imaging for patients with COVID-19," lead investigator Dr. Scott Faro of Thomas Jefferson University, in Philadelphia, said in a statement from the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) annual meeting, where he presented the study.

It's become clear that COVID-19 symptoms extend "well beyond the flu-like symptoms and devastating pulmonary involvement" and now include central nervous system (CNS) complications, he told attendees.

To get a better handle on CNS complications of COVID-19, he and his colleagues did a retrospective review of 37,950 patients (mean age, 66 years) who were hospitalized with COVID-19 at seven U.S. and four Western European university hospitals.

A total of 4,342 patients (11%) underwent neuroimaging and acute neuroimaging findings most likely associated with the viral infection were present in 442 patients (10%). The overall incidence of CNS complications was 1.2%.

Ischemic stroke was the most common finding (62.4%), followed by intracranial hemorrhage (37.1%), encephalitis (5.2%), sinus venous thrombosis (2.3%), acute demyelinating encephalomeningitis (1.8%), posterior reversible encephalopathy (1.6%) and vasculitis (0.5%).

Most patients had lesions on only one side of the brain (59.7%) and involving the frontal and parietal lobes (roughly 52%), with an equal distribution of white matter, cortical and subcortical involvement (about 55%).

"Much has been written about the overall pulmonary problems related to COVID-19, but we do not often talk about the other organs that can be affected. Our study shows that central nervous system complications represent a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in this devastating pandemic," Dr. Faro said in the statement.

—Megan Brooks

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