Intravenous thrombolytic treatment of a patient who had a stroke after COVID-19

ABSTRACT

The infection, reported by the WHO as COVID-19, may occur with asymptomatic or mild symptoms, resulting in shock and even death. Stroke occupies an important place among the neurological complications of this disease. In the acute period, intravenous (IV) alteplase therapy is useful in patients suitable for the treatment. This case report includes a 70-year-old patient with mild COVID findings, who had an early complication of stroke and who received a nearly complete benefit from thrombolytic therapy. Stroke can occur in COVID patients at an early stage of the disease. IV thrombolytic therapy should be administered in appropriate patients during the period of acute stroke. As far as we know, the earliest application in our country was carried out in our hospital and was quite successful. After the treatment, the symptoms of COVID-19 also regressed and he was discharged on the 5th day of his hospitalization.Copyright © 2021, Derman Medical Publishing. All rights reserved.