Written by Kate Boor Ellis
On 21 September 2020, Alzheimer Europe marked World Alzheimer’s Day with a social media campaign, calling attention to the damage COVID-19 is doing to the field of dementia research, together with a call for urgent… Continue Reading
In this paper, recently published in Stroke, the authors aimed to compare anterior circulation large vessel occlusion stroke severity between patients with and without COVID-19.
In this paper, recently published in Neurocritical Care, the authors conducted a retrospective cohort study of patients with haemorrhagic stroke (both non-traumatic intracerebral haemorrhage and spontaneous non-aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage) who were hospitalised between March 1, 2020, and May 15, 2020, within a major healthcare system in New York, during the coronavirus pandemic.
In this paper, recently published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, the authors aimed to determine the prevalence of D-dimer elevation in COVID-19 hospitalisation, trajectory of D-dimer levels during hospitalisation, and association with clinical outcomes.
In this paper, recently published in the European Journal of Neurology, the authors reported four cases of COVID‐19‐related encephalopathy. The diagnosis was made in patients with confirmed COVID‐19 who presented with new‐onset cognitive disturbances, central focal neurological signs or seizures.
In this paper, recently published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry, the authors report initial findings of an ongoing community based COVID-19 study in a large UK-wide population of people with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) which coincided with the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in the UK