Journal article
Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Volumes and Cerebrovascular Events: One-Year Follow-up
Neurology, Vol.100(4), pp.e408-e421
01/24/2023
DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201426
PMCID: PMC9897052
PMID: 36257718
Abstract
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Declines in stroke admission, intravenous thrombolysis, 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 impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volumes of stroke admissions, intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), intravenous thrombolysis (IVT), and mechanical thrombectomy over a one-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, intravenous thrombolysis 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 one-year immediately before compared to 138,453 admissions during the one-year pandemic, representing a 7% decline (95% confidence interval [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 to 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 to 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. TRIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION: This study is registered under NCT04934020.
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- Global Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Stroke Volumes and Cerebrovascular Events: One-Year Follow-up
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- Thanh N NguyenMuhammad M QureshiPiers KleinHiroshi YamagamiRobert MikulikAnna CzlonkowskaMohamad AbdalkaderPetra SedovaAnvitha SathyaHannah C LoOssama Yassin MansourHusitha Reddy VanguruEmilie LesaineGeorgios TsivgoulisAaron I LoochtanJelle DemeestereKen UchinoNitin GoyalVioliza InoaAndreas CharidimouJames E SieglerShadi YaghiDiana Aguiar de SousaMahmoud MohammadenDiogo C HaussenEspen Saxhaug KristoffersenVirginia Pujol LereisSergio Daniel ScolloBruce CV CampbellAlice MaJames Orton ThomasMark W ParsonsShaloo SinghalLee-Anne SlaterRodrigo Tomazini MartinsChris EnzingerThomas GattringerThomas BonnetAminur RahmanNoemie LigotSylvie De RaedtRobin LemmensPeter VanackerFenne VandervorstAdriana Bastos ConfortoRaquel CT HidalgoLuciana de Oliveira NevesRodrigo Targa MartinsDaissy Liliana Mora CuervoLeticia C RebelloIgor Bessa SantiagoIsabelle Lameirinhas da SilvaTeodora SakelarovaRosen KalpachkiFilip AlexievLuciana CataneseElena Adela CoraMayank GoyalMichael D HillMichael E KellyHouman 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- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Neurology, Vol.100(4), pp.e408-e421
- DOI
- 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201426
- PMID
- 36257718
- PMCID
- PMC9897052
- NLM abbreviation
- Neurology
- ISSN
- 1526-632X
- eISSN
- 1526-632X
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 10/18/2022
- Date published
- 01/24/2023
- Academic Unit
- Neurology; Radiology; Neurosurgery
- Record Identifier
- 9984321443002771
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