Neurologic Syndromes Predict Higher In-Hospital Mortality in COVID-19
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- Received August 18, 2020
- Accepted in final form November 24, 2020
- First Published December 18, 2020.
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- Emad Nader Eskandar, MD, MBA*,
- David J. Altschul, MD*,
- Rafael de la Garza Ramos, MD,
- Phillip Cezayirli, MD,
- Santiago R. Unda, MD,
- Joshua Benton, BA,
- Joseph Dardick, BA,
- Aureliana Toma, MD,
- Nikunj Patel, BA,
- Avinash Malaviya, BA, MS,
- David Flomenbaum, BS,
- Jenelys Fernandez-Torres, BA,
- Jenny Lu, BA,
- Ryan Holland, MD,
- Elisabetta Burchi, MD,
- Richard Zampolin, MD,
- Kevin Hsu, MD,
- Andrew McClelland, MD,
- Judah Burns, MD,
- Amichai Erdfarb, MD,
- Rishi Malhotra, MD,
- Michelle Gong, MD,
- Peter Semczuk, DDS, MPH,
- Jonathan Gursky, MD,
- Victor Ferastraoaru, MD,
- Jillian Rosengard, MD,
- Daniel Antoniello, MD,
- Daniel Labovitz, MD,
- Charles Esenwa, MD,
- Mark Milstein, MD,
- Alexis Boro, MD and
- Mark F. Mehler, MD
- Emad Nader Eskandar, MD, MBA*,
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- From the Departments of Neurological Surgery (E.N.E., D.J.A., R.d.l.G.R., P.C., S.R.U., J. Benton, J.D., A.T., J.F.-T., J.L., R.H., E.B.), Neurology (N.P., A. Malaviya, D.F., D.A., D.L., J.G., V.F., J.R., C.E., M.M., A.B., M.F.M.), Radiology (R.Z., K.H., A. McClelland, J. Burns, A.E.), and Critical Care Medicine (R.M., M.G.), Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center (P.S., V.F., J.R.), Bronx, NY.
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