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In a brief communication, researchers in New York City present a series of five patients younger than 50 who presented with large vessel ischemic stroke to an academic medical center within a 2-week period. Each was subsequently found to be infected with SARS-CoV-2. Three patients had one or more risk factors for stroke (e.g., hypertension, hyperlipidemia, diabetes, prior stroke); only the patient with a history of stroke was under treatment for risk-factor modification.
The patients presented a median of 8 hours after symptom onset (range, 2–28 hours) with median NIH stroke scale score of 16 (range, 13–23). Each patient underwent at least head computed tomography (CT) and CT angiogram and had a solitary large vessel occlusion. Four underwen…