Volume 25, Issue 112, June 2021

Stroke in young: An unusual presentation of COVID-19

Twinkle Pawar¹, Dhruv Talwar^1♦, Sunil Kumar², Pankaj Banode³, Prasad Takey⁴, Shivam Khanna¹, Vidyashree Hulkoti¹

¹Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
²Professor, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
³Professor and Head of Department, Department of Interventional Radiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India
⁴Post Graduate Resident, Department of Interventional Radiology, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashta, India

^♦Corresponding author
Post Graduate Resident, Department of Medicine, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Datta Meghe Institute of Medical Sciences and Research (Deemed to be university), Wardha, Maharashtra, India

ABSTRACT

Since the December of 2019 there has been an increase in reporting of cerebrovascular events in patients infected with COVID-19. Though it is a common complication which is encountered mostly in the old age it is rare to witness the same in young patient in the absence of prior risk factors. We report a rare case of a young patient with COVID-19 postivie status who presented with a hyper acute infarct in left caudate nucleus, Lenti from nucleus, internal capsule, insular cortex, temporal lobe, parieto-occipital region, focal areas in frontal region and was immediately posted for thrombectomy. The patient improved drastically post procedure. Therefore we highlight the importance of contemplating the differential of stroke induced by COVID-19 even in young patients who present with symptoms consistent with a stroke in the ongoing pandemic.

Keywords: SARSCoV2, stroke, young patients, hypercoagulable state

Medical Science, 2021, 25(112), 1417-1421

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