Intracerebral Hemorrhage in COVID-19 Patients with Pulmonary Failure: A Propensity Score-Matched Registry Study

Background Hypercoagulability in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) causes deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism necessitating systemic anticoagulation. Case reports of intracerebral hemorrhages in ventilated COVID-19 patients warrant precaution. It is unclear, however, if COVID-19 patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) with or without veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation therapy (VV-ECMO) have more intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH) compared to other ARDS patients. Methods We conducted a retrospective observational single-center study enrolling all patients with ARDS from 01/2018 to 05/2020. PCR-positive SARS-CoV-2 patients with ARDS were allocated to the COVID-19 group. Propensity score matching was performed for age, VV-ECMO, and bleeding risk. Results A total of 163 patients with moderate or severe ARDS were identified, 47 (28.8%) in the COVID-19 group, and 116 (71.2%) in the non-COVID-19 group. In 63/163 cases (38.7%), VV-ECMO therapy was required. The ICU survival was 52.8%. COVID-19 patients were older, more often male, and exhibited a lower SOFA score, but the groups showed similar rates of VV-ECMO therapy. Treatments with antiplatelet agents (p = 0.043) and therapeutic anticoagulation (p = 0.028) were significantly more frequent in the COVID-19 patients. ICH was detected in 22 patients (13.5%) with no statistical difference between the groups (11.2 vs. 19.1% without and with SARS-CoV-2, respectively, p = 0.21). Propensity score matching confirmed similar rates of ICH in both groups (12.8 vs. 19.1% without and with SARS-CoV-2, respectively, p = 0.57), thus leveling out possible confounders. Conclusions Intracerebral hemorrhage was detected in every tenth patient with ARDS. Despite statistically higher rates of antiplatelet therapy and therapeutic anticoagulation in COVID-19 patients, we found a similar rate of ICH in patients with ARDS due to COVID-19 compared to other causes of ARDS..

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

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2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:34

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Neurocritical care - 34(2021), 3 vom: 23. Feb., Seite 739-747

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Englisch

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Lang, Corinna N. [VerfasserIn]
Dettinger, Johanna S. [VerfasserIn]
Berchtold-Herz, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Utzolino, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Bemtgen, Xavier [VerfasserIn]
Zotzmann, Viviane [VerfasserIn]
Schmid, Bonaventura [VerfasserIn]
Biever, Paul M. [VerfasserIn]
Bode, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Müller-Peltzer, Katharina [VerfasserIn]
Duerschmied, Daniel [VerfasserIn]
Wengenmayer, Tobias [VerfasserIn]
Niesen, Wolf-Dirk [VerfasserIn]
Staudacher, Dawid L. [VerfasserIn]

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ARDS
COVID-19
Intracerebral hemorrhage

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© The Author(s) 2021. corrected publication 2021

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10.1007/s12028-021-01202-7

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OLC2125915693