Shunda Williams was recovering from COVID-19 pneumonia at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas last year, still requiring oxygen, when she realized she...
studies stopped enrolling patients in early 2021, before the vaccine became widely available.
These adults are typically middle-aged and don’t have obvious risk factors, such as diabetes or obesity, he said. De Erausquin, who doesn’t treat patients hospitalized with the virus, said the strokes he’s seen are “usually during recovery, and by that, I mean in the months following the acute infection.”
At one of them, ClearSky Rehabilitation Hospital of Flower Mound, clinicians have treated at least three patients in the past nine months with similar stories, he said. They had mild cases of the viral infection and were quarantined at home when they collapsed with what turned out to be a stroke, he said. “None of those patients were over the age of 47.”
During inpatient rehabilitation, Williams worked on improving the weakness in her right arm and leg, along with her balance, so she could shower and dress herself safely, said Jason Mathew, a Texas Health Dallas occupational therapist.
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