1. Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on ischemic stroke admissions and in-hospital mortality in North-West Spain.
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Tejada Meza H, Lambea Gil Á, Saldaña AS, Martínez-Zabaleta M, Juez PR, Martínez EL, Apilánez MC, Isasi MH, Enguita JM, Alfonso ML, Arenillas JF, Olaizola JS, Fernández JJT, Sánchez J, Castellanos-Rodrigo M, Roel A, Menéndez IC, Freijo M, Rodriguez AL, Portilla EP, López YJ, Castro ER, Rivas SA, García JT, Rodríguez IB, Julián-Villaverde F, García MPM, Trejo-Gabriel-Galán JM, Iñiguez AE, Juste CT, Lázaro CP, Moreno JM, and On Behalf Of The Nordictus Investigators
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- Aged, Brain Ischemia diagnosis, Brain Ischemia therapy, COVID-19, Female, Hospital Mortality, Humans, Male, Pandemics, Reperfusion, Retrospective Studies, SARS-CoV-2, Spain, Stroke diagnosis, Stroke therapy, Tertiary Care Centers, Betacoronavirus, Brain Ischemia mortality, Coronavirus Infections epidemiology, Hospitalization statistics & numerical data, Pneumonia, Viral epidemiology, Stroke mortality
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Background and Purpose: Spain has been one of the countries heavily stricken by COVID-19. But this epidemic has not affected all regions equally. We analyzed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital stroke admissions and in-hospital mortality in tertiary referral hospitals from North-West Spain., Methods: Spanish multicenter retrospective observational study based on data from tertiary hospitals of the NORDICTUS network. We recorded the number of patients admitted for ischemic stroke between 30 December 2019 and 3 May 2020, the number of IVT and EVT procedures, and in-hospital mortality., Results: In the study period, 2737 patients were admitted with ischemic stroke. There was a decrease in the weekly mean admitted patients during the pandemic (124 vs. 173, p<0.001). In-hospital mortality of stroke patients increased significantly (9.9% vs. 6.5%, p = 0.003), but there were no differences in the proportion of IVT (17.3% vs. 16.1%, p = 0.405) or EVT (22% vs. 23%, p = 0.504)., Conclusion: We found a decrease in the number of ischemic stroke admissions and an increase in in-hospital mortality during the COVID-19 epidemic in this large study from North-West Spain. There were regional changes within the network, not fully explained by the severity of the pandemic in different regions.
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- 2020
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