Global Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Volumes and Cerebrovascular Events A 1-Year Follow-up
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NGUYEN, Thanh Ngoc, QURESHI, Muhammad Mustafa, KLEIN, Piers, NOI, Autori, LEAHU, Pavel. Global Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Volumes and Cerebrovascular Events A 1-Year Follow-up. In: Neurology, 2023, nr. 4(100), pp. E408-E421. ISSN 0028-3878. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000201426
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Neurology
Numărul 4(100) / 2023 / ISSN 0028-3878 /ISSNe 1526-632X

Global Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Volumes and Cerebrovascular Events A 1-Year Follow-up

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000201426

Pag. E408-E421

Nguyen Thanh Ngoc12, Qureshi Muhammad Mustafa13, Klein Piers1, Noi Autori, Leahu Pavel4
 
1 Boston University School of Medicine,
2 Department of Neurology, Warsaw,
3 Osaka National Hospital,
4 ”Nicolae Testemițanu” State University of Medicine and Pharmacy
 
 
Disponibil în IBN: 23 februarie 2023


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Background and Objectives Declines in stroke admission, IV thrombolysis (IVT), and mechanical thrombectomy volumes were reported during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a paucity of data on the longer-term effect of the pandemic on stroke volumes over the course of a year and through the second wave of the pandemic. We sought to measure the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volumes of stroke admissions, intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), IVT, and mechanical thrombectomy over a 1-year period at the onset of the pandemic (March 1, 2020, to February 28, 2021) compared with the immediately preceding year (March 1, 2019, to February 29, 2020). Methods We conducted a longitudinal retrospective study across 6 continents, 56 countries, and 275 stroke centers. We collected volume data for COVID-19 admissions and 4 stroke metrics: ischemic stroke admissions, ICH admissions, IVT treatments, and mechanical thrombectomy procedures. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes or classifications in stroke databases. Results There were 148,895 stroke admissions in the 1 year immediately before compared with 138,453 admissions during the 1-year pandemic, representing a 7% decline (95% CI [95% CI 7.1-6.9]; p < 0.0001). ICH volumes declined from 29,585 to 28,156 (4.8% [5.1-4.6]; p < 0.0001) and IVT volume from 24,584 to 23,077 (6.1% [6.4-5.8]; p < 0.0001). Larger declines were observed at high-volume compared with low-volume centers (all p < 0.0001). There was no significant change in mechanical thrombectomy volumes (0.7% [0.6-0.9]; p = 0.49). Stroke was diagnosed in 1.3% [1.31-1.38] of 406,792 COVID-19 hospitalizations. SARS-CoV-2 infection was present in 2.9% ([2.82-2.97], 5,656/195,539) of all stroke hospitalizations. Discussion There was a global decline and shift to lower-volume centers of stroke admission volumes, ICH volumes, and IVT volumes during the 1st year of the COVID-19 pandemic compared with the prior year. Mechanical thrombectomy volumes were preserved. These results suggest preservation in the stroke care of higher severity of disease through the first pandemic year. 

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article, blood clot lysis, brain hemorrhage, cerebrovascular accident, cerebrovascular disease, comparative study, controlled study, coronavirus disease 2019, cross-sectional study, follow up, global disease burden, health care facility, hospital admission, hospital volume, hospitalization, human, ICD-10, ischemic stroke, longitudinal study, mechanical thrombectomy