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Autor: Ehab Abd El Kafy, Dmitriy Panov, Futoshi Eto, Tamara Al Bahri, Jonathan McNulty, Mansour Abdullah Alshehri, Silke Proesmans, Richard Marigold, Sprincean Mariana, Mikhail Baklushev, Nick Eleveld, Shane Foley, Daniela Santos Oliveira, Jonathon Scot Cummock
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Eur Stroke J
ISSN: 2396-9881
Popis: Background and Aims: COVID-19 pandemia had a lot of challenges for stroke care. The aim of this study is to assess the mortality due to ischaemic stroke in the first year of COVID-19 pandemia. Methods: This is a retrospective study in which we compared the numbers of strokes, ischemic strokes mortality of first year of COVID-19 pandemia. We compared all parameters between 1 March 2019-29 February 2020 and 1 March 2020-28 February 2021. Results: In the period between 1 March 2020-28 February 2021 the number of patients hospitalized due to a stroke increased by 29,4% compared to the same period of time, a year before. The mortality caused by ischemic stroke has decreased in the pandemic period by 15,5%. Regarding the ages of the patients who died due to an ischemic stroke, the average age was 76,73±11,31 in 1 March 2019-29 February 2020, respectively 73,45±13,19 in COVID (-) patients and 76,23±9,28 in COVID (+) patients in 1 March 2020-28 February 2021. Conclusions: The increasing in the number of strokes in 1 March 2020-28 February 2021 can be due to COVID-19 infections, which is known to cause coagulopathy issues and this can cause ishemic strokes. Despite the pandemia, the stroke mortality has decreased during first year of COVID-19 compared to a year before, same period.
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