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Estonia is a small country in Northeastern Europe, the northernmost of the three Baltic states.

In order to fill educational gap, CoCoCare developed a state-of-the-art educational program for residents across Europe

The study is funded by the European Commission and the first results will be used as input for a meeting of Ministries of Health in the EU in July 2020 under the current German EU Presidency, and addressing the future governance for primary and secondary use of health data, also in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic.

For July 2020, we have selected: Yang P. et al. Endovascular Thrombectomy with or without Intravenous Alteplase in Acute Stroke

A letter from Elena Moro as new Secretary General

Prof. D. Muresanu interviews Prof. Michael Brainin, President of the World Stroke Organization (WSO)

EAN Scientific Panel Neuro-oncology invites you to take part in their survey:

The first case of COVID-19 infection was recorded in Brazil on Feb 25, 2020. On June 20th, official statistics reported 1 million confirmed cases, and more than 50,000 deaths. Brazil has the second highest number of cases of COVID-19 in the world, facing more than 1,000 deaths per day. However, due to underreporting among many regions in the country, the actual numbers are unknown. Besides the underestimation of the real deaths and cases, the Government recently changed the way in which the cases were reported: only new cases were reported, and not the total number of infected people or deaths. This has produced great criticism from the scientific community and the media, increasing the levels of tension under which the country has been living.

In this paper, just published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors report neuropathological findings from autopsies of 18 consecutive patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who died in a single teaching hospital between April 14 and April 29, 2020.

This retrospective multicentre study aimed to assess the number of patients with acute ischaemic cerebrovascular events seeking inpatient medical emergency care since the implementation of social distancing measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this paper recently published in Neurology, the authors aimed to determine whether neurological manifestations are common in hospitalised COVID-19 patients and to describe their main characteristics.

In this paper, the authors report a case of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) with onset 2 weeks after SARS-CoV-2 infection and highly elevated serum antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, supporting an association between SARS-CoV-2 disease and GBS.

Immunosuppression and immunomodulation are valuable therapeutic approaches for managing neuroimmunological diseases. In the present COVID-19 pandemic, clinicians must deal with the question of whether immunotherapy should currently be initiated or discontinued in neurological patients.

In this paper, the authors systematically analysed lung tissue samples from 38 patients who died from COVID-19 in two hospitals in northern Italy between Feb 29 and March 24 2020.