Critical illness-associated cerebral microbleeds for patients with severe COVID-19: etiologic hypotheses

Neurology Journal

Fecha de publicación: 21 de noviembre de 2021

Autores: François Lersy, Thibault Willaume, Jean-Christophe Brisset, Olivier Collange, Julie Helms, Francis Schneider, Agathe Chammas, Alexandre Willaume, Nicolas Meyer, Mathieu Anheim, François Cotton & Stéphane Kremer 

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-020-10313-8

Background: During the COVID-19 outbreak, the presence of extensive white matter microhemorrhages was detected by brain MRIs. The goal of this study was to investigate the origin of this atypical hemorrhagic complication.