"Doctors discuss the alarming increase of stroke in young people during the COVID-19 pandemic"

In this special edition of "Life After Stroke with Christopher Ewing", Christopher chats with a team of doctors from the US and Canada who, individually, began to notice troubling anomalies in stroke patients in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and decided to reach out to each other to discuss and compare their alarming concerns.

The guests on this episode are some of the leading doctors in the area of stroke. They are:

- Dr. Andrew Xavier, a pioneer in the field of Vascular and Interventional Neurology

- Dr. Priyank Khandelwal, Assistant Professor of Neurological surgery and Neurology At University Hospital in Newark, NJ

- Dr. Adam Dmytriw at the University of Toronto, whose training includes the University of Oxford in the UK, Harvard University, and more.

- Dr. Ambooj Tiwari, a stroke neurologist and Neurointerventional radiologist and surgeon, whose specific interest is in the endovascular management and treatment of patients with stroke, subarachnoid hemorrhage, AVM and aneurysms.

Important topics covered by the doctors in this episode include:

- the alarming increase of strokes among people in their 30s and 40s as a result of the coronavirus

- the increase of illness in young children due to COVID-19, when it was originally thought that the virus does not affect kids

- the life-threatening impact that COVID-19 appears to have on blood vessels during stroke surgery

- why is "social distancing" and a worldwide shutdown necessary for COVID-19 when it wasn't necessary for SARS and MERS?

- the sobering truth that a vaccine may never be developed that can fight the COVID-19 virus

And much, much more.  This is, truly, a "must hear" interview!


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