{"doi":"10.3174/ajnr.a6793","title":"Brain Imaging of Patients with COVID-19: Findings at an Academic Institution during the Height of the Outbreak in New York City","abstract":"BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: A large spectrum of neurologic disease has been reported in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection. Our aim was to investigate the yield of neuroimaging in patients with COVID-19 undergoing CT or MR imaging of the brain and to describe associated imaging findings. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We performed a retrospective cohort study involving 2054 patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 presenting to 2 hospitals in New York City between March 4 and May 9, 2020, of whom 278 (14%) underwent either CT or MR imaging of the brain. All images initially received a formal interpretation from a neuroradiologist within the institution and were subsequently reviewed by 2 neuroradiologists in consensus, with disputes resolved by a third neuroradiologist. RESULTS: The median age of these patients was 64 years (interquartile range, 50-75 years), and 43% were women. Among imaged patients, 58 (21%) demonstrated acute or subacute neuroimaging findings, the most common including cerebral infarctions (11%), parenchymal hematomas (3.6%), and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (1.1%). Among the 51 patients with MR imaging examinations, 26 (51%) demonstrated acute or subacute findings; notable findings included 6 cases of cranial nerve abnormalities (including 4 patients with olfactory bulb abnormalities) and 3 patients with a microhemorrhage pattern compatible with critical illness-associated microbleeds. CONCLUSIONS: Our experience confirms the wide range of neurologic imaging findings in patients with COVID-19 and suggests the need for further studies to optimize management for these patients.","journal":"American Journal of Neuroradiology","year":2020,"id":54353,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":105,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.5857,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":278956,"name":"Joshua Lantos","orcid":"0000-0003-4323-7828","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278957,"name":"Sara Strauß","orcid":"0000-0001-7766-2721","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278958,"name":"C. Douglas Phillips","orcid":"0000-0003-1773-8899","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278959,"name":"Thomas R. Campion","orcid":"0000-0001-7624-769X","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278960,"name":"Babak B. Navi","orcid":"0000-0001-8424-6128","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278961,"name":"Neal S. Parikh","orcid":"0000-0002-8802-2380","position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278962,"name":"Alexander E. Merkler","orcid":"0000-0002-2211-299X","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278963,"name":"Saad Mir","orcid":"0000-0001-8954-4802","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278964,"name":"Cenai Zhang","orcid":"0000-0001-8137-1644","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":109055,"name":"Hooman Kamel","orcid":"0000-0002-5745-0307","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278965,"name":"Marika Cusick","orcid":"0000-0002-1750-5246","position":11,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":228353,"name":"Parag Goyal","orcid":"0000-0001-7474-3737","position":12,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278966,"name":"Ajay Gupta","orcid":"0000-0003-2816-0340","position":13,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":278955,"name":"Eaton Lin","orcid":"0000-0003-1860-4059","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":41,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T21:03:43.037640Z","pmid":"32819899","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}