PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Esenwa, C.
AU  - Cheng, N.T.
AU  - Lipsitz, E.
AU  - Hsu, K.
AU  - Zampolin, R.
AU  - Gersten, A.
AU  - Antoniello, D.
AU  - Soetanto, A.
AU  - Kirchoff, K.
AU  - Liberman, A.
AU  - Mabie, P.
AU  - Nisar, T.
AU  - Rahimian, D.
AU  - Brook, A.
AU  - Lee, S.-K.
AU  - Haranhalli, N.
AU  - Altschul, D.
AU  - Labovitz, D.
TI  - COVID-19-Associated Carotid Atherothrombosis and Stroke
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A6752
DP  - 2020 Nov 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 1993--1995
VI  - 41
IP  - 11
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/41/11/1993.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/41/11/1993.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2020 Nov 01; 41
AB  - SUMMARY: We present a radiology-pathology case series of 3 patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with acute ischemic stroke due to fulminant carotid thrombosis overlying mild atherosclerotic plaque and propose a novel stroke mechanism: COVID-associated carotid atherothrombosis.ACE2angiotensin-converting enzyme 2CCAcommon carotid arteryCOVID-19coronavirus disease 2019RT-PCRreverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reactionSARS-CoV-2Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2