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Alexander Merkler

Weill Cornell Medicine
Verified email at med.cornell.edu
Cited by 4399

Risk of ischemic stroke in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vs patients with influenza

AE Merkler, NS Parikh, S Mir, A Gupta, H Kamel… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
… Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Dr Merkler has received personal fees for medicolegal
consulting on stroke. Dr Kamel serves as co–principal investigator for the National Institutes of …

Restarting anticoagulant therapy after intracranial hemorrhage: a systematic review and meta-analysis

SB Murthy, A Gupta, AE Merkler, BB Navi, P Mandava… - Stroke, 2017 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— The safety and efficacy of restarting anticoagulation therapy after
intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) remain unclear. We performed a systematic review and meta…

Recurrent thromboembolic events after ischemic stroke in patients with cancer

BB Navi, S Singer, AE Merkler, NT Cheng, JB Stone… - Neurology, 2014 - AAN Enterprises
Objective: To determine the cumulative rate and characteristics of recurrent thromboembolic
events after acute ischemic stroke in patients with cancer. Methods: We retrospectively …

The rate of complications after ventriculoperitoneal shunt surgery

AE Merkler, J Ch'ang, WE Parker, SB Murthy… - World neurosurgery, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Although ventriculoperitoneal shunt (VPS) surgery is the most frequent surgical
treatment for patients with hydrocephalus, modern rates of complications in adults are …

Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome in patients with COVID-19

…, V Gao, AN Gewirtz, NS Parikh, AE Merkler… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Elsevier
Merkler a b , Joshua Lantos c , Halina White a , Dana Leifer a , Babak B. Navi a b , Alan Z. …
Merkler has received personal fees for medicolegal consulting on stroke. Dr. Leifer has …

Brain imaging of patients with COVID-19: findings at an academic institution during the height of the outbreak in New York City

…, BB Navi, NS Parikh, AE Merkler… - American Journal …, 2020 - Am Soc Neuroradiology
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A large spectrum of neurologic disease has been reported
in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Our aim was to investigate …

Left atrial volume index is associated with cardioembolic stroke and atrial fibrillation detection after embolic stroke of undetermined source

…, M Jayaraman, G Tsivgoulis, MK Sabeh, AE Merkler… - Stroke, 2019 - Am Heart Assoc
Background and Purpose— Left atrial enlargement has been shown to be associated with
ischemic stroke, but the association with embolic stroke mechanisms remains unknown. We …

Cerebrovascular complications of COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccination

…, OG Schiavo, M Iacobucci, D Toni, AE Merkler - Circulation …, 2022 - Am Heart Assoc
The risk of stroke and cerebrovascular disease complicating infection with SARS-CoV-2 has
been extensively reported since the onset of the pandemic. The striking efforts of many …

Tailoring the approach to embolic stroke of undetermined source: a review

H Kamel, AE Merkler, C Iadecola, A Gupta… - JAMA …, 2019 - jamanetwork.com
Importance One-third of ischemic strokes have no identifiable cause after standard evaluation.
In 2014, researchers termed theseembolic strokes of undetermined source(ESUS) and …

Inflammation, autoimmunity, infection, and stroke: epidemiology and lessons from therapeutic intervention

NS Parikh, AE Merkler, C Iadecola - Stroke, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
712 Stroke March 2020 outcome of stroke. 27, 28 Rosuvastatin reduced stroke risk in subjects
who either achieved LDL-C levels of< 70 mg/dL or hs-CRP levels of< 2 mg/L. Importantly, …