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Intracerebral Hemorrhage and SARS-CoV-2: Association or Causation
Ayush Agarwal1, Venugopalan Y Vishnu1, Deepti Vibha1
1Department of Neurology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India.
Background:
Recent respiratory infection including SARS-CoV-2 is an independent risk factor for acute cerebrovascular disease.
Purpose:
There have been reports linking haemorrhagic strokes to SARS-CoV-2 infection during this pandemic, which lead us to evaluate if SARS-CoV-2 infection could be associated with increased risk of intracerebral haemorrhage (ICH).
Methods:
A retrospective observational study evaluating all stroke cases admitted in our centre in the past one month.
Results:
More than half (56%) had ICH, compared to 22% last year. Two patients with ICH were SARS-CoV-2 positive and they had no or mild respiratory symptoms and had higher occurrence of renal dysfunction.
Conclusion:
There could be possible association between ICH and SARS-CoV-2 infections. However, a prospective study with larger sample size is needed to elucidate the pathogenesis.
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