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Title
Global Impact of COVID-19 on Stroke Care and Intravenous Thrombolysis.
Publication Date
2021-03-25
Author(s)
Nogueira, Raul G
Qureshi, Muhammed M
Abdalkader, Mohamad
Martins, Sheila Ouriques
Yamagami, Hiroshi
Qiu, Zhongming
Mansour, Ossama Yassin
Sathya, Anvitha
Czlonkowska, Anna
Tsivgoulis, Georgios
Aguiar de Sousa, Diana
Demeestere, Jelle
Mikulik, Robert
Vanacker, Peter
Siegler, James E
Kõrv, Janika
Biller, Jose
Liang, Conrad W
Sangha, Navdeep S
Zha, Alicia M
Czap, Alexandra L
Holmstedt, Christine Anne
Turan, Tanya N
Ntaios, George
Malhotra, Konark
Tayal, Ashis
Loochtan, Aaron
Ranta, Annamarei
Mistry, Eva A
Alexandrov, Anne W
Huang, David Y
Yaghi, Shadi
Raz, Eytan
Sheth, Sunil A
Mohammaden, Mahmoud H
Frankel, Michael
Bila Lamou, Eric Guemekane
Aref, Hany M
Elbassiouny, Ahmed
Hassan, Farouk
Menecie, Tarek
Mustafa, Wessam
Shokri, Hossam M
Roushdy, Tamer
Sarfo, Fred S
Alabi, Tolulope Oyetunde
Arabambi, Babawale
Nwazor, Ernest O
Sunmonu, Taofiki Ajao
Wahab, Kolawole
Yaria, Joseph
Mohammed, Haytham Hussein
Adebayo, Philip B
Riahi, Anis D
Ben Sassi, Samia
Gwaunza, Lenon
Ngwende, Gift Wilson
Sahakyan, David
Rahman, Aminur
Ai, Zhibing
Bai, Fanghui
Duan, Zhenhui
Hao, Yonggang
Huang, Wenguo
Li, Guangwen
Li, Wei
Liu, Ganzhe
Luo, Jun
Shang, Xianjin
Sui, Yi
Tian, Ling
Wen, Hongbin
Wu, Bo
Yan, Yuying
Yuan, Zhengzhou
Zhang, Hao
Zhang, Jun
Zhao, Wenlong
Zi, Wenjie
Leung, Thomas W
Chugh, Chandril
Huded, Vikram
Menon, Bindu
Pandian, Jeyaraj Durai
Sylaja, P N
Usman, Fritz Sumantri
Farhoudi, Mehdi
Hokmabadi, Elyar Sadeghi
Horev, Anat
Reznik, Anna
Hoffmann, Rotem Sivan
Ohara, Nobuyuki
Sakai, Nobuyuki
Watanabe, Daisuke
Yamamoto, Ryoo
Doijiri, Ryosuke
Tokuda, Naoki
Yamada, Takehiro
Terasaki, Tadashi
Yazawa, Yukako
Uwatoko, Takeshi
Dembo, Tomohisa
Shimizu, Hisao
Sugiura, Yuri
Miyashita, Fumio
Fukuda, Hiroki
Miyake, Kosuke
Shimbo, Junsuke
Sugimura, Yusuke
Yagita, Yoshiki
Takenobu, Yohei
Matsumaru, Yuji
Yamada, Satoshi
Kono, Ryuhei
Kanamaru, Takuya
Yamazaki, Hidekazu
Sakaguchi, Manabu
Todo, Kenichi
Yamamoto, Nobuaki
Sonoda, Kazutaka
Yoshida, Tomoko
Hashimoto, Hiroyuki
Nakahara, Ichiro
Kondybayeva, Aida
Faizullina, Kamila
Kamenova, Saltanat
Zhanuzakov, Murat
Baek, Jang-Hyun
Hwang, Yangha
Lee, Jin Soo
Lee, Si Baek
Moon, Jusun
Park, Hyungjong
Seo, Jung Hwa
Seo, Kwon-Duk
Sohn, Sung Il
Young, Chang Jun
Ahdab, Rechdi
Wan Zaidi, Wan Asyraf
Aziz, Zariah Abdul
Basri, Hamidon Bin
Chung, Law Wan
Ibrahim, Aznita Binti
Ibrahim, Khairul Azmi
Looi, Irene
Tan, Wee Yong
Yahya, Nafisah Wan
Groppa, Stanislav
Leahu, Pavel
Al Hashmi, Amal M
Imam, Yahia Zakaria
Akhtar, Naveed
Pineda-Franks, Maria Carissa
Co, Christian Oliver
Kandyba, Dmitriy
Alhazzani, Adel
Al-Jehani, Hosam
Tham, Carol Huilian
Mamauag, Marlie Jane
Venketasubramanian, Narayanaswamy
Chen, Chih-Hao
Tang, Sung-Chun
Churojana, Anchalee
Akil, Esref
Aykaç, Ozlem
Ozdemir, Atilla Ozcan
Giray, Semih
Hussain, Syed Irteza
John, Seby
Le Vu, Huynh
Tran, Anh Duc
Nguyen, Huy Hoang
Pham, Thong Nhu
Nguyen, Thang Huy
Nguyen, Trung Quoc
Gattringer, Thomas
Enzinger, Christian
Killer-Oberpfalzer, Monika
Bellante, Flavio
De Blauwe, Sofie
Vanhooren, Geert
De Raedt, Sylvie
Dusart, Anne
Lemmens, Robin
Ligot, Noemie
Rutgers, Matthieu Pierre
Yperzeele, Laetitia
Alexiev, Filip
Sakelarova, Teodora
Bedeković, Marina Roje
Budincevic, Hrvoje
Cindrić, Igor
Hucika, Zlatko
Ozretic, David
Saric, Majda Seferovic
Pfeifer, Frantiek
Karpowic, Igor
Cernik, David
Sramek, Martin
Skoda, Miroslav
Hlavacova, Helena
Klecka, Lukas
Koutny, Martin
Vaclavik, Daniel
Skoda, Ondrej
Fiksa, Jan
Hanelova, Katerina
Nevsimalova, Miroslava
Rezek, Robert
Prochazka, Petr
Krejstova, Gabriela
Neumann, Jiri
Vachova, Marta
Brzezanski, Henryk
Hlinovsky, David
Tenora, Dusan
Jura, Rene
Jurák, Lubomír
Novak, Jan
Novak, Ales
Topinka, Zdenek
Fibrich, Petr
Sobolova, Helena
Volny, Ondrej
Christensen, Hanne Krarup
Drenck, Nicolas
Iversen, Helle Klingenberg
Simonsen, Claus Z
Truelsen, Thomas Clement
Wienecke, Troels
Vibo, Riina
Gross-Paju, Katrin
Toomsoo, Toomas
Antsov, Katrin
Caparros, Francois
Cordonnier, Charlotte
Dan, Maria
Faucheux, Jean-Marc
Mechtouff, Laura
Eker, Omer
Lesaine, Emilie
Ondze, Basile
Peres, Roxane
Pico, Fernando
Piotin, Michel
Pop, Raoul
Rouanet, Francois
Gubeladze, Tatuli
Khinikadze, Mirza
Lobjanidze, Nino
Tsikaridze, Alexander
Nagel, Simon
Ringleb, Peter Arthur
Rosenkranz, Michael
Schmidt, Holger
Sedghi, Annahita
Siepmann, Timo
Szabo, Kristina
Thomalla, Götz
Palaiodimou, Lina
Sagris, Dimitrios
Kargiotis, Odysseas
Klivenyi, Peter
Szapary, Laszlo
Tarkanyi, Gabor
Adami, Alessandro
Bandini, Fabio
Calabresi, Paolo
Frisullo, Giovanni
Renieri, Leonardo
Sangalli, Davide
Pirson, Anne V
Uyttenboogaart, Maarten
van den Wijngaard, Ido
Kristoffersen, Espen Saxhaug
Brola, Waldemar
Fudala, Małgorzata
Horoch-Lyszczarek, Ewa
Karlinski, Michal
Kazmierski, Radoslaw
Kram, Pawel
Rogoziewicz, Marcin
Kaczorowski, Rafal
Luchowski, Piotr
Sienkiewicz-Jarosz, Halina
Sobolewski, Piotr
Fryze, Waldemar
Wisniewska, Anna
Wiszniewska, Malgorzata
Ferreira, Patricia
Ferreira, Paulo
Fonseca, Luisa
Marto, João Pedro
Pinho E Melo, Teresa
Nunes, Ana Paiva
Rodrigues, Miguel
Cruz, Vítor Tedim
Falup-Pecurariu, Cristian
Krastev, Georgi
Mako, Miroslav
Alonso de Leciñana, María
Arenillas, Juan F
Ayo-Martin, Oscar
Culebras, Antonio Cruz
Tejedor, Exuperio Diez
Montaner, Joan
Pérez-Sánchez, Soledad
Tola Arribas, Miguel Angel
Vasquez, Alejandro Rodriguez
Mazya, Michael
Bernava, Gianmarco
Brehm, Alex
Machi, Paolo
Fischer, Urs
Gralla, Jan
Michel, Patrik L
Psychogios, Marios-Nikos
Strambo, Davide
Banerjee, Soma
Krishnan, Kailash
Kwan, Joseph
Butt, Asif
Catanese, Luciana
Demchuk, Andrew
Field, Thalia
Haynes, Jennifer
Hill, Michael D
Khosravani, Houman
Mackey, Ariane
Pikula, Aleksandra
Saposnik, Gustavo
Scott, Courtney Anne
Shoamanesh, Ashkan
Shuaib, Ashfaq
Yip, Samuel
Barboza, Miguel A
Barrientos, Jose Domingo
Portillo Rivera, Ligia Ibeth
Gongora-Rivera, Fernando
Novarro-Escudero, Nelson
Blanco, Anmylene
Abraham, Michael
Alsbrook, Diana
Altschul, Dorothea
Alvarado-Ortiz, Anthony J
Bach, Ivo
Badruddin, Aamir
Barazangi, Nobl
Brereton, Charmaine
Castonguay, Alicia
Chaturvedi, Seemant
Chaudhry, Saqib A
Choe, Hana
Choi, Jae H
Dharmadhikari, Sushrut
Desai, Kinjal
Devlin, Thomas G
Doss, Vinodh T
Edgell, Randall
Etherton, Mark
Farooqui, Mudassir
Frei, Don
Gandhi, Dheeraj
Grigoryan, Mikayel
Gupta, Rishi
Hassan, Ameer E
Helenius, Johanna
Kaliaev, Artem
Kaushal, Ritesh
Khandelwal, Priyank
Khawaja, Ayaz M
Khoury, Naim N
Kim, Benny S
Kleindorfer, Dawn O
Koyfman, Feliks
Lee, Vivien H
Leung, Lester Y
Linares, Guillermo
Linfante, Italo
Lutsep, Helmi L
Macdougall, Lisa
Male, Shailesh
Malik, Amer
Masoud, Hesham
McDermott, Molly
Mehta, Brijesh P
Min, Jiangyong
Mittal, Manoj
Morris, Jane G
Multani, Sumeet S
Nahab, Fadi
Nalleballe, Krishna
Nguyen, Claude B
Novakovic-White, Roberta
Ortega-Gutierrez, Santiago
Rahangdale, Rahul H
Ramakrishnan, Pankajavalli
Romero, Jose Rafael
Rost, Natalia
Rothstein, Aaron
Ruland, Sean
Shah, Ruchir
Sharma, Malveeka
Silver, Brian
Simmons, Marc
Singh, Abhishek
Starosciak, Amy K
Strasser, Sheryl L
Szeder, Viktor
Teleb, Mohamed
Tsai, Jenny P
Voetsch, Barbara
Balaguera, Oscar
Pujol Lereis, Virginia A
Luraschi, Adriana
Almeida, Marcele Schettini
Cardoso, Fabricio Buchdid
Conforto, Adriana
De Deus Silva, Leonardo
Giacomini, Luidia Varrone
Lima, Fabricio Oliveira
Longo, Alexandre L
Magalhães, Pedro Sc
Martins, Rodrigo Targa
Mont'alverne, Francisco
Mora Cuervo, Daissy Liliana
Rebello, Leticia Costa
Valler, Lenise
Zetola, Viviane Flumignan
Lavados, Pablo M
Navia, Victor
Olavarría, Verónica V
Almeida Toro, Juan Manuel
Ricardo Amaya, Pablo Felipe
Bayona, Hernan
Corredor-Quintero, Angel Basilio
Rivera Ordonez, Carlos Eduardo
Mantilla Barbosa, Diana Katherine
Lara, Osvaldo
Patiño, Mauricio R
Diaz Escobar, Luis Fernando
Dejesus Melgarejo Farina, Donoband Edson
Villamayor, Analia Cardozo
Zelaya Zarza, Adolfo Javier
Barrientos Iman, Danny Moises
Kadota, Liliana Rodriguez
Campbell, Bruce
Hankey, Graeme J
Hair, Casey
Kleinig, Timothy
Ma, Alice
Martins, Rodrigo Tomazini
Sahathevan, Ramesh
Thijs, Vincent N
Salazar, Daniel
Yuan-Hao Wu, Teddy
Haussen, Diogo C
Liebeskind, David
Yavagal, Dileep
Jovin, Tudor G
Zaidat, Osama O
Nguyen, Thanh N
Subject
COVID-19
Type of document
Journal Article
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DOI
10.1212/WNL.0000000000011885
Abstract
The objectives of this study were to measure the global impact of the pandemic on the volumes for intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), IVT transfers, and stroke hospitalizations over 4 months at the height of the pandemic (March 1 to June 30, 2020) compared with two control 4-month periods. We conducted a cross-sectional, observational, retrospective study across 6 continents, 70 countries, and 457 stroke centers. Diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes and/or classifications in stroke databases. There were 91,373 stroke admissions in the 4 months immediately before compared to 80,894 admissions during the pandemic months, representing an 11.5% (95%CI, -11.7 to - 11.3, p<0.0001) decline. There were 13,334 IVT therapies in the 4 months preceding compared to 11,570 procedures during the pandemic, representing a 13.2% (95%CI, -13.8 to -12.7, p<0.0001) drop. Interfacility IVT transfers decreased from 1,337 to 1,178, or an 11.9% decrease (95%CI, -13.7 to -10.3, p=0.001). Recovery of stroke hospitalization volume (9.5%, 95%CI 9.2-9.8, p<0.0001) was noted over the two later (May, June) versus the two earlier (March, April) pandemic months. There was a 1.48% stroke rate across 119,967 COVID-19 hospitalizations. SARS-CoV-2 infection was noted in 3.3% (1,722/52,026) of all stroke admissions. The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of stroke hospitalizations, IVT, and interfacility IVT transfers. Primary stroke centers and centers with higher COVID19 inpatient volumes experienced steeper declines. Recovery of stroke hospitalization was noted in the later pandemic months.
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Citation
Neurology 2021; online first: 25 March
Jornal Title
Neurology

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