Open AccessSTROKE AS A COMPLICATION OF COVID-19 INFECTION
Author(s) -
Daniela Vieira da Silveira Santos,
Grazielle Romaneto Marques,
Leonardo Franco de Almeida,
Anna Luisa de Souza Holanda,
Idrys Henrique Leite Guedes,
João Carlos de Oliveira Dutra
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
health and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2763-5724
DOI - 10.51249/hes01.03.2021.349
Subject(s) - covid-19 , stroke (engine) , neurology , medicine , complication , portuguese , coronavirus , pandemic , disease , intensive care medicine , medical emergency , emergency medicine , virology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychiatry , outbreak , mechanical engineering , linguistics , philosophy , engineering
The coronavirus disease, caused by the new coronavirus, more contagious than it´s predecessors, has relations with the cerebrovascular accident. The stroke continues to be a medical emergency and evidences show that the infection by COVID-19 is a risc factor. The present article intend to determinate how the COVID-19 can influenciate in a stroke. The studies used in this article were found at PubMed and SciELO databases in English, Portuguese and Spanish, in the year of 2020, with the keywords “COVID-19”, “stroke”, “neurology” and “SARS-CoV-2”.