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cord-351819-ovpz36e7	Beyrouti, Rahma	Characteristics of ischaemic stroke associated with COVID-19	2020-04-30		.txt	text/plain	1469	88	42	We describe the demographic, clinical, radiological and laboratory characteristics of six consecutive patients assessed between 1 st and 16 th April 2020 at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK, with acute ischaemic stroke and COVID-19 (confirmed by reverse-transcriptase PCR (RT-PCR)) (table 1). On day 22, he developed acute bilateral incoordination and right homonymous hemianopia; MRI brain showed extensive acute posterior cerebral artery territory infarction (online PostScript Continued PostScript supplementary figure S1B); he received high-intensity LMWH anticoagulation. A 53-year-old woman, taking warfarin for valvular atrial fibrillation (AF), presented 24 days after COVID-19 symptom onset (cough, dyspnoea), with acute confusion, incoordination and drowsiness; CT brain confirmed acute large left cerebellar and right parieto-occipital infarcts (online supplementary figure S1 C, D). An 83-year-old man with a history of hypertension, diabetes, ischaemic heart disease, heavy smoking and alcohol consumption, presented with dysarthria and left hemiparesis 15 days after COVID-19 symptom onset.	./cache/cord-351819-ovpz36e7.txt	./txt/cord-351819-ovpz36e7.txt