Journal of the American Heart Association • Vol 13 • No 3
COVID‐19 Infection Is Associated With Poor Outcomes in Patients With Intracerebral Hemorrhage
January 2024 • Daniela Renedo, Audrey C. Leasure, Rebecca Young, Cyprien Rivier, Brooke Alhanti, Brian Mac Grory, Steven R. Messé, Mathew J. Reeves, Ameer E Hassan,…
Background Patients with ischemic stroke and concomitant COVID‐19 infection have worse outcomes than those without this infection, but the impact of COVID‐19 on hemorrhagic stroke remains unclear. We aimed to assess if COVID‐19 worsens outcomes in intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH). Methods and Results We conducted an observational study of ICH outcomes using Get With The Guidelines Stroke data. We compared patients with ICH who were COVID‐19 positive and negative during the pandemic (March 2020–February 2021) and pre…