Call to Action: SARS-CoV-2 and CerebrovAscular DisordErs (CASCADE)

Shahram Abootalebi; Benjamin M Aertker; Mohammad Sobhan Andalibi; Negar Asdaghi; Ozlem Aykac; M Reza Azarpazhooh; M Cecilia Bahit; Kristian Barlinn; Hamidon Basri; Reza Bavarsad Shahripour; Anna Bersano; Jose Biller; Afshin Borhani-Haghighi; Robert D Brown; Bruce C Campbell; Salvador Cruz-Flores; Deidre Anne De Silva; Mario Di Napoli; Afshin A Divani; Randall C Edgell; Johanna T Fifi; Abdoreza Ghoreishi; Teruyuki Hirano; Keun-Sik Hong; Chung Y Hsu; Josephine F Huang; Manabu Inoue; Amanda L Jagolino; Moira Kapral; Hoo Fan Kee; Zafer Keser; Rakesh Khatri; Masatoshi Koga; Jerzy Krupinski; David S Liebeskind; Liping Liu; Henry Ma; Alberto Maud; Louise D McCullough; Dawn Matherne Meyer; Victoria Mifsud; Negar Morovatdar; Yongchai Nilanont; Thomas J Oxley; Atilla Ozcan Ozdemir; Jeyaraj Pandian; Leonardo Pantoni; Nikolaos IH Papamitsakis; Adrian Parry-Jones; Thanh Phan; Gustavo Rodriguez; Jose G Romano; Ziad Sabaa-Ayoun; Hamidreza Saber; Payam Sasannezhad; Jeffrey L Saver; Eugene Scharf; Ashfaq Shuaib; Brian Silver; Shaloo Singhal; Craig J Smith; Saverio Stranges; PN Sylaja; Michel Torbey; Kazunori Toyoda; Georgios Tsivgoulis; Mohammad Wasay; Nawaf Yassi; Takeshi Yoshimoto; Babak Zamani; Ramin Zand

Journal article

Call to Action: SARS-CoV-2 and CerebrovAscular DisordErs (CASCADE)

Shahram Abootalebi, Benjamin M Aertker, Mohammad Sobhan Andalibi, Negar Asdaghi, Ozlem Aykac, M Reza Azarpazhooh, M Cecilia Bahit, Kristian Barlinn, Hamidon Basri, Reza Bavarsad Shahripour, Anna Bersano, Jose Biller, Afshin Borhani-Haghighi, Robert D Brown, Bruce C Campbell, Salvador Cruz-Flores, Deidre Anne De Silva, Mario Di Napoli, Afshin A Divani, Randall C Edgell Show all

Journal of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases | ELSEVIER | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2020.104938

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2), now named coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), may change the risk of stroke through an enhanced systemic inflammatory response, hypercoagulable state, and endothelial damage in the cerebrovascular system. Moreover, due to the current pandemic, some countries have prioritized health resources towards COVID-19 management, making it more challenging to appropriately care for other potentially disabling and fatal diseases such as stroke. The aim of this study is to identify and describe changes in stroke epidemiological trends before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic. METHODS: This is an inter..

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