Neurovascular complications that can be seen in COVID-19 patients

Shingo Kihira; Javin Schefflein; Puneet Pawha; Brian Rigney; Bradley N Delman; Dwight Xuan; Johanna Fifi; Amish H Doshi; Puneet Belani

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2020.09.011

Neurovascular complications that can be seen in COVID-19 patients

Clin Imaging. 2021 Jan:69:280-284. doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2020.09.011. Epub 2020 Oct 6.

Authors

Shingo Kihira¹, Javin Schefflein², Puneet Pawha², Brian Rigney², Bradley N Delman², Dwight Xuan³, Johanna Fifi⁴, Amish H Doshi², Puneet Belani²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1234, New York, NY 10029, USA. Electronic address: shingo.kihira@mountsinai.org.
² Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1234, New York, NY 10029, USA.
³ Department of Aerospace Medicine, 61st Medical Squadron, 483 North Aviation Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90245, USA.
⁴ Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1234, New York, NY 10029, USA; Department of Neurosurgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, One Gustave L. Levy Place, Box 1136, New York, NY 10029, USA.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a clinical manifestation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), was declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on March 11, 2020. Hypercoagulable state has been described as one of the hallmarks of SARS-CoV-2 infection and has been reported to manifest as pulmonary embolisms, deep vein thrombosis, and arterial thrombosis of the abdominal small vessels. Here we present cases of arterial and venous thrombosis pertaining to the head and neck in COVID-19 patients.

Keywords: COVID-19; Hemorrhagic strokes; Large vessel occlusions; Venous sinus thrombosis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19* / complications
COVID-19* / diagnosis
Coronavirus Infections* / epidemiology
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral* / epidemiology
SARS-CoV-2
Venous Thrombosis* / virology