학술논문

Prognostic indicators and outcomes of hospitalised COVID-19 patients with neurological disease: An individual patient data meta-analysis
Document Type
article
Author
Bhagteshwar SinghSuzannah LantSofia CividiniJonathan W. S. CattrallLynsey C. GoodwinLaura BenjaminBenedict D. MichaelAyaz KhawajaAline de Moura Brasil MatosWalid AlkeridyAndrea PilottoDurjoy LahiriRebecca RawlinsonSithembinkosi MhlangaEvelyn C. LopezBrendan F. SargentAnushri SomasundaranArina TamborskaGlynn WebbKomal YounasYaqub Al SamiHeavenna BabuTristan BanksFrancesco CavallieriMatthew CohenEmma DaviesShalley DharAnna Fajardo ModolHamzah FarooqJeffrey HarteSamuel HeyAlbert JosephDileep KarthikappallilDaniel KassahunGareth LipungaRachel MasonThomas MintonGabrielle MondJoseph PoxonSophie RabasGermander SoothillMarialuisa ZeddeKonstantin YenkoyanBruce BrewErika ContiniLucette CysiqueXin ZhangPietro MaggiVincent van PeschJérome LechienSven SaussezAlex HeyseMaria Lúcia Brito FerreiraCristiane N. SoaresIsabel ElicerLaura Eugenín-von BernhardiWaleng Ñancupil ReyesRong YinMohammed A. AzabFoad Abd-AllahAhmed ElkadySimon EscalardJean-Christophe CorvolCécile DelormePierre TattevinKévin BigautNorbert LorenzDaniel HornussJonas HospSiegbert RiegDirk WagnerBenjamin KnierPaul LingorAndrea Sylvia WinklerAthena Sharifi-RazaviShima T. MoeinSeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghiSaeidreza JamaliMoghadamSiahkaliMauro MorassiAlessandro PadovaniMarcello GiuntaIlenia LibriSimone BerettaSabrina RavagliaMatteo FoschiPaolo CalabresiGuido PrimianoSerenella ServideiNicola Biagio MercuriClaudio LiguoriMariangela PierantozziLoredana SarmatiFederica BosoSilvia GarazzinoSara MariottoKimani N. PatrickOana CostacheAlexander PincherleFrederikus A. KlokRoger MezaVerónica CabreiraSofia R. ValdoleirosVanessa OliveiraIgor KaimovskyAlla GuekhtJasmine KohEva Fernández DíazJosé María Barrios-LópezCristina Guijarro-CastroÁlvaro Beltrán-CorbelliniJavier Martínez-PolesAlba María Diezma-MartínMaria Isabel Morales-CasadoSergio García GarcíaGautier BrevilleMatteo CoenMarjolaine UginetRaphaël Bernard-ValnetRenaud Du PasquierYildiz KayaLoay H. AbdelnourClaire RiceHamish MorrisonSylviane DefresSaif HudaNoelle EnrightJane HassellLucio D’AnnaMatthew BengerLaszlo SztrihaEamon RaithKrishna ChinthapalliRoss NortleyRoss PatersonArvind ChandrathevaDavid J. WerringSamir DervisevicKirsty HarknessAshwin PintoDinesh JillellaScott BeachKulothungan GunasekaranIvan Rocha Ferreira Da SilvaKrishna NalleballeJonathan SantoroTyler ScullenLora KahnCarla Y. KimKiran T. ThakurRajan JainThirugnanam UmapathiTimothy R. NicholsonJames J. SejvarEva Maria HodelThe Brain Infections Global COVID-Neuro Network Study GroupCatrin Tudur SmithTom Solomon
Source
PLoS ONE, Vol 17, Iss 6 (2022)
Subject
Medicine
Science
Language
English
ISSN
1932-6203
Abstract
Background Neurological COVID-19 disease has been reported widely, but published studies often lack information on neurological outcomes and prognostic risk factors. We aimed to describe the spectrum of neurological disease in hospitalised COVID-19 patients; characterise clinical outcomes; and investigate factors associated with a poor outcome. Methods We conducted an individual patient data (IPD) meta-analysis of hospitalised patients with neurological COVID-19 disease, using standard case definitions. We invited authors of studies from the first pandemic wave, plus clinicians in the Global COVID-Neuro Network with unpublished data, to contribute. We analysed features associated with poor outcome (moderate to severe disability or death, 3 to 6 on the modified Rankin Scale) using multivariable models. Results We included 83 studies (31 unpublished) providing IPD for 1979 patients with COVID-19 and acute new-onset neurological disease. Encephalopathy (978 [49%] patients) and cerebrovascular events (506 [26%]) were the most common diagnoses. Respiratory and systemic symptoms preceded neurological features in 93% of patients; one third developed neurological disease after hospital admission. A poor outcome was more common in patients with cerebrovascular events (76% [95% CI 67–82]), than encephalopathy (54% [42–65]). Intensive care use was high (38% [35–41]) overall, and also greater in the cerebrovascular patients. In the cerebrovascular, but not encephalopathic patients, risk factors for poor outcome included breathlessness on admission and elevated D-dimer. Overall, 30-day mortality was 30% [27–32]. The hazard of death was comparatively lower for patients in the WHO European region. Interpretation Neurological COVID-19 disease poses a considerable burden in terms of disease outcomes and use of hospital resources from prolonged intensive care and inpatient admission; preliminary data suggest these may differ according to WHO regions and country income levels. The different risk factors for encephalopathy and stroke suggest different disease mechanisms which may be amenable to intervention, especially in those who develop neurological symptoms after hospital admission.