October 6, 2020

A Prospective Study of Neurologic Disorders in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in New York City

Category: Article Summary

Topic: Clinical Characteristics and Health Care Setting

Keywords (Tags): clinical characteristics

• A prospective multi-center observational study of hospitalized COVID-19 patients in New York City (n=4,491) found that 14% of patients developed a new neurological disorder at a median of 2 days after COVID-19 symptom onset, which was also associated with increased adjusted risk of in-hospital mortality and decreased likelihood of hospital discharge. The most common diagnoses were toxic/metabolic encephalopathy (6.8%), seizure (1.6%), stroke (1.9%), and hypoxic/ischemic injury (1.4%).

Frontera et al. (Oct 5, 2020). A Prospective Study of Neurologic Disorders in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in New York City. Neurology. https://doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000010979