A Rare Case of Stroke as a Complication After Percutaneous Mechanical Thrombectomy in a Patient with Intermediate-High Risk Pulmonary Embolism and Patent Foramen Ovale.

Unlabelled: We present an extremely rare case of a patient with intermediate-high risk pulmonary embolism treated with percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy, complicated with stroke as a form of paradoxical embolism through a previously unknown patent foramen ovale. We reviewed the literature for indications, efficacy, and safety of this procedure, as well as for experience on this technique in patients with patent foramen ovale.

Learning Points: Some authors propose percutaneous mechanical thrombectomy as an aggressive treatment of intermediate-high risk pulmonary embolism.

Fatal intracerebral haemorrhage associated with thrombosis with thrombocytopenia syndrome after ChAdOx1-S vaccine.

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact on health, society and economics worldwide. Therefore, vaccines against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have recently emerged as an important measure to fight the pandemic. ChAdOx1-S (Oxford-AstraZeneca) is an adenovirus-vectored vaccine that expresses the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein.

Related factors with orolingual angioedema after intravenous alteplase in acute ischemic stroke: results from a single-center cohort and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Orolingual angioedema (OA) after intravenous thrombolysis (IVT) with alteplase in acute stroke can be a life-threatening complication. Our aim was to describe its incidence, clinical features, and related factors.

Patients And Methods: We analyzed a single-center cohort of stroke patients treated with IVT in an 8-year period.

Acute Stroke Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Reduction in the Number of Admissions of Elderly Patients and Increase in Prehospital Delays.

Introduction: We analyzed whether the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis affected acute stroke care in our center during the first 2 months of lockdown in Spain.

Methods: This is a single-center, retrospective study. We collected demographic, clinical, and radiological data; time course; and treatment of patients meeting the stroke unit admission criteria from March 14 to May 14, 2020 (COVID-19 period group).

Cerebral amyloid angiopathy-related transient focal neurological episodes: A transient ischemic attack mimic with an increased risk of intracranial hemorrhage.

Background: Transient focal neurological episodes (TFNEs) are a recently recognized clinical presentation of cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA). Our aim was to describe the clinical and radiological features of a series of patients with AS.

Methods: We included 11 patients presenting with recurrent transient focal neurological symptoms and radiological features related to CAA.