Vivek Yedavalli
The COVID-19 pandemic has undeniably impacted all walks of life by putting a significant strain on health care resources. The number of ways in which the pandemic has changed health care is an ongoing topic of interest within the research community. Neuroradiology is arguably one of the most dramatically affected subspecialties in all of … more »
Deborah R. Shatzkes
This paper is not about imaging in stroke, nor is it about stroke physiology or even the incidence of stroke in COVID-19. This paper, born from the observations of a group of suddenly less busy neuroradiologists at a large Manhattan hospital, reports the decrease in the monthly incidence of stroke code imaging … more »
Thomas C. Booth
At the very start of the pandemic, when performing emergency CTA for patients with suspected stroke, we noticed the presence of ground-glass opacification (GGO) in the apices in those with COVID-19. Additionally, we were aware that the results for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing were not ready … more »
David J. Altschul
The pandemic associated with COVID-19 had a dramatic impact on all aspects of our daily lives. While much of the fear of the disease and its spread was appropriately focused toward the virus itself, this reaction had an impact on other disease states in the people in our communities. We as … more »
Permesh Dhillon
Previous guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic stressed the need for maintenance of services providing emergent mechanical thrombectomy (MT) in patients with cerebral large-vessel occlusion.1 The time-critical nature of MT precludes awaiting the results of any COVID-19 reverse transcriptase–polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) swab test, which initially could take up to 24 hours and … more »