observational study

This retrospective multicentre study aimed to assess the number of patients with acute ischaemic cerebrovascular events seeking inpatient medical emergency care since the implementation of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this paper recently published in Neurology, the authors aimed to determine whether neurological manifestations are common in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and to describe their main characteristics.

In this study, recently published in Neurology Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation, the authors conducted a survey on the risk of COVID-19 in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders (NMOSD).

In this prospective observational cohort study with rapid data gathering and near real-time analysis, the authors characterised the clinical features of patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 in the United Kingdom during the growth phase of the first wave of the outbreak. Patients were enrolled in the International Severe Acute Respiratory and emerging Infections Consortium (ISARIC) World Health Organisation (WHO) Clinical Characterisation Protocol UK (CCP-UK) study, and risk factors associated with mortality in hospital were explored.

In this paper just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors report the natural history of asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection from part of the cohort of the 410 infected people on the cruise ship, Diamond Princess, who were asymptomatic at the time of testing.

In this paper, the authors conducted a prospective national-level data collection of patients treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT), across 45 days of pandemic containment measures, compared to patients treated during the same calendar period in 2019.