Abstract
The ongoing pandemic caused by coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is now a global concern. Although SARS-CoV-2 primarily involves lung, there are emerging data on involvement of heart, brain, kidney, gastrointestinal tract, liver and others. Amongst neurological manifestations, acute stroke, encephalitis and GBS are reported. Here we describe two RT-PCR confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infected patients presented with acute ischemic stroke. The possible background mechanisms are arterial thrombosis due to hypercoagulability, direct and immune-mediated neuronal damage, viral vasculopathy, cardio-embolism etc. BSMMU J 2021; 14 (COVID -19 Supplement): 60-63
Highlights
The ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-COV-2 infects more than eight million people and killed more than tweleve thousand life during writing of this report in Bangladesh since the first case was diagnosed on 8th March, 2020.1 Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are variable
Till there are very few case reports of COVID -19 patients presented as acute stroke
We described two cases of COVID-19 primarily presented as acute stroke
Summary
Cite this arƟcle: Paul S, Rahman SMM, Chowdhury FUH, Alam MR, Chowdhury FR. The ongoing pandemic caused by SARS-COV-2 infects more than eight million people and killed more than tweleve thousand life during writing of this report in Bangladesh since the first case was diagnosed on 8th March, 2020.1 Clinical manifestations of COVID-19 are variable. SARS-CoV-2 primarily involves lung, there are emerging data on involvement of heart, brain, kidney, gastrointestinal, liver and others.[2] Amongst neurological manifestations, acute stroke, encephalitis and GBS are reported.[3,4,5] Till there are very few case reports of COVID -19 patients presented as acute stroke. We described two cases of COVID-19 primarily presented as acute stroke
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