Ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 and racial outcome disparity in North America

Adam A Dmytriw^{1

2}, Kevin Phan², Clemens Schirmer³, Fabio Settecase⁴, Manraj K S Heran⁴, Aslan Efendizade⁵, Anna Luisa Kühn⁶, Ajit S Puri⁶, Bijoy K Menon⁷, Mahmoud Dibas², Sanjeev Sivakumar⁸, Ashkan Mowla⁹, Lester Y Leung¹⁰, Adel M Malek¹¹, Barbara Voetsch¹², Siddharth Sehgal¹², Ajay K Wakhloo¹³, Hannah Wu^{2

14

15}, Andrew Xavier^{16

17}, Ambooj Tiwari^{2

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15}

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¹ Neuroradiology & Neurointervention Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States admytriw@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Interventional Neuro Associates, Greenvale, NY 11548, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery & Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurointerventional Radiology, UMass Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA, United States.
⁷ Calgary Stroke Program, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁸ Department of Medicine (Neurology), Prisma Health Upstate, USC, Greenville, SC, United States.
⁹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
¹¹ Departments of Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
¹² Department of Neurology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
¹³ Neurointerventional Radiology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Neurology, Brookdale University Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Neurology, Jamaica Medical Center, Richmond Hill, NY, United States.
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States.
¹⁷ Department of Neurology, St. Joseph Mercy Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.

PMID: 32801118
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324653

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Ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 and racial outcome disparity in North America

Adam A Dmytriw et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020 Dec.

. 2020 Dec;91(12):1362-1364.

doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324653. Epub 2020 Aug 13.

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¹ Neuroradiology & Neurointervention Service, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States admytriw@bwh.harvard.edu.
² Interventional Neuro Associates, Greenvale, NY 11548, USA.
³ Department of Neurosurgery & Neuroscience Institute, Geisinger, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA.
⁴ Division of Interventional Neuroradiology, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
⁵ Department of Radiology, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University, Brooklyn, NY, USA.
⁶ Department of Neurointerventional Radiology, UMass Memorial Hospital, Worcester, MA, United States.
⁷ Calgary Stroke Program, Cumming School of Medicine, Calgary, AB, Canada.
⁸ Department of Medicine (Neurology), Prisma Health Upstate, USC, Greenville, SC, United States.
⁹ Department of Neurological Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, United States.
¹⁰ Department of Neurology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
¹¹ Departments of Neurosurgery, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, United States.
¹² Department of Neurology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
¹³ Neurointerventional Radiology, Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA, United States.
¹⁴ Department of Neurology, Brookdale University Hospital, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
¹⁵ Department of Neurology, Jamaica Medical Center, Richmond Hill, NY, United States.
¹⁶ Department of Neurology, Sinai Grace Hospital, Detroit, MI, United States.
¹⁷ Department of Neurology, St. Joseph Mercy Health, Ann Arbor, MI, United States.

PMID: 32801118
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324653

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Keywords: epidemiology; infectious diseases; stroke.

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Competing interests: None declared.

Comment in

Increased ethnicity and socioeconomic data collection required in stroke associated with COVID-19.
Hafeez D, Song J, Watson C, Rooney A, Nicholson TR; SARS-COV-neuro collaboration. Hafeez D, et al. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2021 Mar;92(3):336-337. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-325057. Epub 2020 Sep 18. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2021. PMID: 32948636 No abstract available.

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High mortality rate in COVID-19-associated stroke, analysis of risk factors.
Renieri L. Renieri L. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020 Dec;91(12):1249. doi: 10.1136/jnnp-2020-324781. Epub 2020 Aug 27. J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry. 2020. PMID: 32855288 No abstract available.

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