COVID-19 caused strokes in young people who had mild coronavirus symptoms, NYC doctors say


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COVID-19 caused strokes in young people who had mild coronavirus symptoms, NYC doctors say

New York City doctors say the coronavirus is triggering a surge in strokes in younger patients, causing alarm among medical experts.

Over a two-week period, Mount Sinai doctors reported five patients who suffered large vessel strokes in patients under the age of 50, according to letter they published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).

All five patients tested positive for COVID-19 but had very mild to no symptoms.

“That creates a big alarm,” said Dr. J Mocco, director of the Cerebrovascular Center at Mount Sinai and one of the letter’s authors. “Our spider sense goes up to say that there’s something not right here.”

Out of the five patients, one died, one is still hospitalized, one was discharged from the hospital and two are in rehabilitation. The youngest patient was 33 and only one patient had a history of stroke.
 
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