Stroke Risk in COVID-19 Patients

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic changed the spectrum of health care and impacted multiple specialties in one way or the other including Neurology. A variety of neurologic complications were reported secondary to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), and stroke is the most common amongst them. In this review article we try to discuss the impact of SARS-CoV-2 on stroke and review available literature. Further large case series studies and retrospective analyses are needed to better understand the different aspects of cerebrovascular accidents in relation to COVID-19.

Clin Infect Immun. 2021;6(3):71-74
doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/cii135