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Editor, Senior Moderator
SAGE Open Med
. 2024 Aug 28:12:20503121241272518.
doi: 10.1177/20503121241272518. eCollection 2024. Effect of COVID 19 pandemic on the neurology department hospitalization with analysis of the neurological complications secondary to COVID 19 and vaccination against COVID 19
Kosuke Matsuzono[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Makiko Mieno[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Takafumi Mashiko[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuhei Anan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tadashi Ozawa[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Reiji Koide[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ryota Tanaka[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Akio Kimura[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Shigeru Fujimoto[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Objective: We investigated the effect of the pandemic on neurological hospitalizations and complications associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection or vaccinations.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of patients hospitalized in our neurology division from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2022 as the opt-out study. We classified the neurological diseases into nine subgroups, evaluated changes of neurological disease characteristics, and analyzed patients hospitalized with the complications from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection or after the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination over three eras based on the pandemic stages: (1) pre-pandemic, (2) during the pandemic but before vaccines, and (3) during the pandemic with vaccines.
Results: Overall, 1756 patients were included in the analyses. The patient characteristics significantly changed throughout the pandemic (p < 0.01). Although the number of autoimmune cases did not change throughout the pandemic (p = 0.53), that of psychological cases and that of unknown cases were significantly changed (p < 0.05, p < 0.01). There were four infectious cases and 11 cases following vaccination from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2022. The 11 postvaccination cases involved 10 kinds of neurological diseases.
Conclusions: The neurological characteristics significantly changed throughout the pandemic and there were diverse neurological complications following vaccinations.
Keywords: Autoimmunity; COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; neurologic manifestations; stroke.
. 2024 Aug 28:12:20503121241272518.
doi: 10.1177/20503121241272518. eCollection 2024. Effect of COVID 19 pandemic on the neurology department hospitalization with analysis of the neurological complications secondary to COVID 19 and vaccination against COVID 19
Kosuke Matsuzono[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Makiko Mieno[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Takafumi Mashiko[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yuhei Anan[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Tadashi Ozawa[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Reiji Koide[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ryota Tanaka[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Akio Kimura[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Shigeru Fujimoto[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 39220747
- PMCID: PMC11363057
- DOI: 10.1177/20503121241272518
Objective: We investigated the effect of the pandemic on neurological hospitalizations and complications associated with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection or vaccinations.
Methods: We retrospectively analyzed data of patients hospitalized in our neurology division from 1 April 2019 to 31 March 2022 as the opt-out study. We classified the neurological diseases into nine subgroups, evaluated changes of neurological disease characteristics, and analyzed patients hospitalized with the complications from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection or after the coronavirus disease 2019 vaccination over three eras based on the pandemic stages: (1) pre-pandemic, (2) during the pandemic but before vaccines, and (3) during the pandemic with vaccines.
Results: Overall, 1756 patients were included in the analyses. The patient characteristics significantly changed throughout the pandemic (p < 0.01). Although the number of autoimmune cases did not change throughout the pandemic (p = 0.53), that of psychological cases and that of unknown cases were significantly changed (p < 0.05, p < 0.01). There were four infectious cases and 11 cases following vaccination from 1 April 2020 to 31 March 2022. The 11 postvaccination cases involved 10 kinds of neurological diseases.
Conclusions: The neurological characteristics significantly changed throughout the pandemic and there were diverse neurological complications following vaccinations.
Keywords: Autoimmunity; COVID-19; COVID-19 vaccines; neurologic manifestations; stroke.