1. Decline in subarachnoid haemorrhage volumes associated with the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
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Nguyen, Thanh N, Haussen, Diogo C, Qureshi, Muhammad M, Yamagami, Hiroshi, Fujinaka, Toshiyuki, Mansour, Ossama Y, Abdalkader, Mohamad, Frankel, Michael, Qiu, Zhongming, Taylor, Allan, Lylyk, Pedro, Eker, Omer F, Mechtouff, Laura, Piotin, Michel, Lima, Fabricio Oliveira, Mont'Alverne, Francisco, Izzath, Wazim, Sakai, Nobuyuki, Mohammaden, Mahmoud, Al-Bayati, Alhamza R, Renieri, Leonardo, Mangiafico, Salvatore, Ozretic, David, Chalumeau, Vanessa, Ahmad, Saima, Rashid, Umair, Hussain, Syed Irteza, John, Seby, Griffin, Emma, Thornton, John, Fiorot, Jose Antonio, Rivera, Rodrigo, Hammami, Nadia, Cervantes-Arslanian, Anna M, Dasenbrock, Hormuzdiyar H, Vu, Huynh Le, Nguyen, Viet Quy, Hetts, Steven, Bourcier, Romain, Guile, Romain, Walker, Melanie, Sharma, Malveeka, Frei, Don, Jabbour, Pascal, Herial, Nabeel, Al-Mufti, Fawaz, Ozdemir, Atilla Ozcan, Aykac, Ozlem, Gandhi, Dheeraj, Chugh, Chandril, Matouk, Charles, Lavoie, Pascale, Edgell, Randall, Beer-Furlan, Andre, Chen, Michael, Killer-Oberpfalzer, Monika, Pereira, Vitor Mendes, Nicholson, Patrick, Huded, Vikram, Ohara, Nobuyuki, Watanabe, Daisuke, Shin, Dong Hun, Magalhaes, Pedro Sc, Kikano, Raghid, Ortega-Gutierrez, Santiago, Farooqui, Mudassir, Abou-Hamden, Amal, Amano, Tatsuo, Yamamoto, Ryoo, Weeks, Adrienne, Cora, Elena A, Sivan-Hoffmann, Rotem, Crosa, Roberto, Möhlenbruch, Markus, Nagel, Simon, Al-Jehani, Hosam, Sheth, Sunil A, Lopez Rivera, Victor S, Siegler, James E, Sani, Achmad Fidaus, Puri, Ajit S, Kuhn, Anna Luisa, Bernava, Gianmarco, Machi, Paolo, Abud, Daniel G, Pontes-Neto, Octavio M, Wakhloo, Ajay K, Voetsch, Barbara, Raz, Eytan, Yaghi, Shadi, Mehta, Brijesh P, Kimura, Naoto, Murakami, Mamoru, Lee, Jin Soo, Hong, Ji Man, Fahed, Robert, Walker, Gregory, Hagashi, Eiji, Cordina, Steve M, and Roh, Hong Gee
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SARS-CoV-2 ,SVIN COVID-19 Registry ,Neurosciences ,COVID-19 ,Intracranial Aneurysm ,subarachnoid ,Subarachnoid Hemorrhage ,infection ,nervous system diseases ,Brain Disorders ,Stroke ,Treatment Outcome ,Cross-Sectional Studies ,Japanese Society of Vascular and Interventional Neurology Society ,Clinical Research ,aneurysm ,Humans ,coil ,cardiovascular diseases ,Prospective Studies ,haemorrhage ,the Middle East North Africa Stroke and Interventional Neurotherapies Organization ,Pandemics ,Retrospective Studies - Abstract
BackgroundDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased volumes of stroke admissions and mechanical thrombectomy were reported. The study's objective was to examine whether subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) hospitalisations and ruptured aneurysm coiling interventions demonstrated similar declines.MethodsWe conducted a cross-sectional, retrospective, observational study across 6 continents, 37 countries and 140 comprehensive stroke centres. Patients with the diagnosis of SAH, aneurysmal SAH, ruptured aneurysm coiling interventions and COVID-19 were identified by prospective aneurysm databases or by International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, codes. The 3-month cumulative volume, monthly volumes for SAH hospitalisations and ruptured aneurysm coiling procedures were compared for the period before (1 year and immediately before) and during the pandemic, defined as 1 March-31 May 2020. The prior 1-year control period (1 March-31 May 2019) was obtained to account for seasonal variation.FindingsThere was a significant decline in SAH hospitalisations, with 2044 admissions in the 3 months immediately before and 1585 admissions during the pandemic, representing a relative decline of 22.5% (95% CI -24.3% to -20.7%, p
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- 2021