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The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 2 Comparison between suspected COVID-19 and non-suspected COVID-19 patients regarding TOAST classification

From: Tanta stroke chain performance during era of COVID-19 pandemic: how to minimize the real/expectation gap

TOAST

Suspected

COVID-19

(n:115)

Non-suspected

COVID-19

(n:377)

P-value

Large artery

77 (66.96%)

239 (63.40%)

 < 0.001*

Lacunar

14 (12.17%)

91 (24.14%)

 < 0.001*

Cardioembolic

1 (0.87%)

33 (8.75%)

 < 0.001*

Other determined cause

0 (0%)

7 (1.86%)

0.307

Undetermined cause

2 (1.74%)

7 (1.86%)

0.096

Cryptogenic

21 (18.26%)

0 (0%)

 < 0.001*

  1. Data are presented as mean ± SD or frequency (%)
  2. TOAST Trial of Org 10,172 in Acute Stroke Treatment classification
  3. *Significant as P value ≤ 0.05
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