Inequities in Telemedicine Use Among Patients With Stroke and Cerebrovascular Diseases: A Tricenter Cross-sectional Study.

Background And Objectives: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, outpatient stroke care delivery was rapidly transformed to outpatient evaluation through video (VTM) and telephone (TPH) telemedicine (TM) visits around the world. We sought to evaluate the sociodemographic differences in outpatient TM use among stroke patients.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective chart review of outpatients evaluated at 3 tertiary stroke centers in the early period of the pandemic, 3/16/2020 through 7/31/2020.

Secondary mechanisms of injury and viable pathophysiological targets in intracerebral hemorrhage.

Intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) can be divided into a primary and secondary phase. In the primary phase, hematoma volume is evaluated and therapies are focused on reducing hematoma expansion. In the secondary, neuroprotective phase, complex systemic inflammatory cascades, direct cellular toxicity, and blood-brain barrier disruption can result in worsening perihematomal edema that can adversely affect functional outcome.