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Introduction Patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can exhibit neurological symptoms and diseases A few studies have focused on cerebrovascular diseases in patients with COVID-19 In the present study, we as-sessed medical records of patients with COVID-19 with stroke Material and methods Forty-seven COVID-19 patients with stroke were consecutively selected and reviewed Medical records of the patients including information on age, gender, severity of pulmonary involvement (intubation or non-intubation) in COVID, presence of ICH and ischemic stroke, localization of ICH, history of diabetes and hyper-tension were collected Results Twenty-three COVID-19 patients (49%) had ICH and 24 COVID-19 patients (51%) had ischemic stroke Sixteen COVID-19 patients with ICH (69 6%) had lobar hemorrhage and 7 COVID-19 patients with ICH (30 4%) had non-lobar hemorrhage (p =0 093) Conclusions In this study, ICH and ischemic stroke were present at roughly the same rate in COVID-19 patients with stroke Lobar hemorrhage was seen more frequently in COVID-19 patients with ICH Brain and cerebrovascular imaging can be a helpful component of the work-up in COVID-19 patients
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