Brain death in a child as a result of COVID-19-associated acute stroke: The first case

OpenAlex İngilizce

Cerebrovascular events associated with COVID-19 may be due to systemic inflammation and hypercoagulable state resulting from cytokine storm, post-infectious immune-mediated response and direct viral-induced endotheliitis or endotheliopathy. 1,2The reported incidence of stroke in COVID-19-hospitalised patients is 1.3-2.4%, 3,4and young adult patients in their 30s are also reported to have COVID-19-related stroke. 5,6ecently published case series and case reports revealed thromboembolic events in adult patients with 7 To our knowledge, there are no reported cases of paediatric patients suffering stroke and resultant brain death due to cerebral arterial thrombosis associated with COVID-19. Her, we present the case of a 7-year-old girl who suffered from a catastrophic intracranial arterial thromboembolic event.