PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - C. Esenwa
AU  - N.T. Cheng
AU  - E. Lipsitz
AU  - K. Hsu
AU  - R. Zampolin
AU  - A. Gersten
AU  - D. Antoniello
AU  - A. Soetanto
AU  - K. Kirchoff
AU  - A. Liberman
AU  - P. Mabie
AU  - T. Nisar
AU  - D. Rahimian
AU  - A. Brook
AU  - S.-K. Lee
AU  - N. Haranhalli
AU  - D. Altschul
AU  - D. Labovitz
TI  - COVID-19-Associated Carotid Atherothrombosis and Stroke
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A6752
DP  - 2020 Aug 20
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2020/08/20/ajnr.A6752.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2020/08/20/ajnr.A6752.full
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