COVID-19

The objective of this test negative design study was to estimate the effectiveness of mRNA COVID-19 vaccines against symptomatic infection and severe outcomes (hospital admission or death).

In this article the authors aimed to quantify the risk of acute myocardial infarction and ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19 by analysing all COVID-19 cases in Sweden.

Using a retrospective cohort study based on electronic health records primarily in the USA, the absolute risks of cerebral and portal vein thrombosis in the two weeks following a diagnosis of COVID-19 were calculated.

This study aimed to summarize the global research evidence describing the effect of COVID-19 isolation measures on the health of people living with dementia.

The authors of this study report the safety and immunogenicity of heterologous schedules with the ChAd and BNT vaccines.

For this multicentre cohort study, clinicians were asked to submit all cases in which COVID-19 vaccination preceded the onset of cerebral venous thrombosis, regardless of the type of vaccine, interval between vaccine and onset of cerebral venous thrombosis symptoms, or blood test results.

In this study the authors aimed to establish whether inhaled budesonide reduces time to recovery and COVID-19-related hospital admissions or deaths among people at high risk of complications in the community.

Cross-sectional case-control studies (Blue) Bell’s palsy is a rare adverse event reported in clinical trials of COVID-19 vaccines. However, no population-based study has assessed the association between the inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and Bell’s palsy. The aim of this study was… Continue Reading

Observational, retrospective study of 70 patients with AIS, including 22 subjects with evidence of acute COVID-19 infection, consecutively treated with IVT in 4 stroke centres between 15 September and 30 November 2020.

In this article the authors describe two patients who developed sensory Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) shortly after the first dose of the ChAdOx1 vaccine.

In this review, the authors update the neurological mechanisms by which coronavirus-19 causes neurological manifestation in patients such as encephalomyelitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, lacunars infarcts, neuropsychiatry disorders such as anxiety and depression, and vascular alterations.

This retrospective study evaluates the severity and outcome of COVID-19 in MS and characterizes temporal trends over the course of the pandemic in the United States.

The authors developed an interferon (IFN)-γ release assay to detect T-cell responses specific to SARS-CoV-2 after overnight stimulation of whole blood with peptide libraries covering the immunodominant sequence domains of the Spike glycoprotein and the Nucleocapsid phosphoprotein.

This study investigated the vaccine hesitancy and coping styles in patients with NMOSD to analyze the relationship between vaccine hesitancy and coping styles, and elucidate the factors influencing vaccine hesitancy.

In this article the authors systematically reviewed and meta-analyzed variations in stroke admissions, rate and timing of reperfusion treatments during the 1st-wave COVID pandemic versus the pre-pandemic timeframe depending on stroke network model adopted.