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Risk and impact of stroke across 38 countries and territories of the Americas from 1990 to 2021: a population-based trends analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
(Elsevier BV, 2025-03)
Ramón Martinez
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MUÑOZ VENTURELLI, PAULA ANDREA
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Pedro Ordunez
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Felipe Fregni
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Carlos Abanto
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Fighting Against Stroke in Latin America: A Joint Effort of Medical Professional Societies and Governments
(2021)
Sheila Cristina Ouriques Martins
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LAVADOS GERMAIN, PABLO MANUEL
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Thaís Leite Secchi
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Michael Brainin
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Sebastian Ameriso
<jats:p><jats:bold>Introduction:</jats:bold> Stroke is one of the leading causes of death in Latin America, a region with countless gaps to be addressed to decrease its burden. In 2018, at the first Latin American Stroke Ministerial Meeting, stroke physician and healthcare manager representatives from 13 countries signed the Declaration of Gramado with the priorities to improve the region, with the commitment to implement all evidence-based strategies for stroke care. The second meeting in March 2020 reviewed the achievements in 2 years and discussed new objectives. This paper will review the 2-year advances and future plans of the Latin American alliance for stroke.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Method:</jats:bold> In March 2020, a survey based on the Declaration of Gramado items was sent to the neurologists participants of the Stroke Ministerial Meetings. The results were confirmed with representatives of the Ministries of Health and leaders from the countries at the second Latin American Stroke Ministerial Meeting.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Results:</jats:bold> In 2 years, public stroke awareness initiatives increased from 25 to 75% of countries. All countries have started programs to encourage physical activity, and there has been an increase in the number of countries that implement, at least partially, strategies to identify and treat hypertension, diabetes, and lifestyle risk factors. Programs to identify and treat dyslipidemia and atrial fibrillation still remained poor. The number of stroke centers increased from 322 to 448, all of them providing intravenous thrombolysis, with an increase in countries with stroke units. All countries have mechanical thrombectomy, but mostly restricted to a few private hospitals. Pre-hospital organization remains limited. The utilization of telemedicine has increased but is restricted to a few hospitals and is not widely available throughout the country. Patients have late, if any, access to rehabilitation after hospital discharge.</jats:p><jats:p><jats:bold>Conclusion:</jats:bold> The initiative to collaborate, exchange experiences, and unite societies and governments to improve stroke care in Latin America has yielded good results. Important advances have been made in the region in terms of increasing the number of acute stroke care services, implementing reperfusion treatments and creating programs for the detection and treatment of risk factors. We hope that this approach can reduce inequalities in stroke care in Latin America and serves as a model for other under-resourced environments.</jats:p>
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Global impact of COVID-19 on stroke care
(2021)
Raul G. Nogueira
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Mohamad Abdalkader
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Muhammed M. Qureshi
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Michael R. Frankel
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Ossama Yassin Mansour
<jats:sec><jats:title>Background</jats:title><jats:p> The COVID-19 pandemic led to profound changes in the organization of health care systems worldwide. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Aims</jats:title><jats:p> We sought to measure the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the volumes for mechanical thrombectomy, stroke, and intracranial hemorrhage hospitalizations over a three-month period at the height of the pandemic (1 March–31 May 2020) compared with two control three-month periods (immediately preceding and one year prior). </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods</jats:title><jats:p> Retrospective, observational, international study, across 6 continents, 40 countries, and 187 comprehensive stroke centers. The diagnoses were identified by their ICD-10 codes and/or classifications in stroke databases at participating centers. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results</jats:title><jats:p> The hospitalization volumes for any stroke, intracranial hemorrhage, and mechanical thrombectomy were 26,699, 4002, and 5191 in the three months immediately before versus 21,576, 3540, and 4533 during the first three pandemic months, representing declines of 19.2% (95%CI, −19.7 to −18.7), 11.5% (95%CI, −12.6 to −10.6), and 12.7% (95%CI, −13.6 to −11.8), respectively. The decreases were noted across centers with high, mid, and low COVID-19 hospitalization burden, and also across high, mid, and low volume stroke/mechanical thrombectomy centers. High-volume COVID-19 centers (−20.5%) had greater declines in mechanical thrombectomy volumes than mid- (−10.1%) and low-volume (−8.7%) centers (p < 0.0001). There was a 1.5% stroke rate across 54,366 COVID-19 hospitalizations. SARS-CoV-2 infection was noted in 3.9% (784/20,250) of all stroke admissions. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion</jats:title><jats:p> The COVID-19 pandemic was associated with a global decline in the volume of overall stroke hospitalizations, mechanical thrombectomy procedures, and intracranial hemorrhage admission volumes. Despite geographic variations, these volume reductions were observed regardless of COVID-19 hospitalization burden and pre-pandemic stroke/mechanical thrombectomy volumes. </jats:p></jats:sec>
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Priorities to reduce the burden of stroke in Latin American countries
(2019)
Sheila C Ouriques Martins
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Claudio Sacks
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Werner Hacke
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Michael Brainin
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Francisco de Assis Figueiredo
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