Table 3.

Key characteristics of the reports on cerebral/vertebral artery dissections.

	Age (in Years)	Study Type	Location	Gender	Location of Dissection	Comorbidities	Elevated Inflammatory Markers	COVID Severity	Presenting Symptoms	CTD Workup	Day of Symptom onset	Outcome	Treatment	Associated Neurological Conditions	Imaging
Dakay et al. [30]	31	Case series	USA	F	MCA and v2 segment vertebral artery dissection	Nil	Ferritin = 151 µg/L, CRP = 1.5 mg/L	Mild	NM	Negative	Day 1	Discharged	Conservative	RCVS with SAH	CTA
	57			F	Cervical ICA	Nil	Dimer 7.79 ng/ml, Ferritin = 431 µg/L, CRP = 38 mg/L	Severe	NM	Negative	Day 1	Unfavorable	Mechanical thrombectomy	Large vessel occlusion stroke	CTA
	81			M	Cervical+supraclinoid ICA	Nil	Dimer >35 ng/ml, Ferritin = 772.8 µg/L, CRP = 17 mg/L	Severe	NM	Negative	Day 1	Unfavorable	conservative		CTA
Savic et al. [31]	13	Case report	Syria	F	M2 MCA	Nil	D-dimer 2032 ng/ml, CRP = 13 mg/L	Severe	Depressed consciousness+right side weakness	NM	Day 10	Poor GCS	Frontotemporal craniectomy with hematoma evacuation	Left pseudo aneurysm +partial thrombosis	DSA, CTA
Hernandez-Fernandez et al. [32]	62	Case series	Spain	M	L vertebral artery V1+cerebellar infarction+basilar artery occlusion	HT	D-dimer 267 ng/ml, Ferritin = 918 µg/L	Mild	NM	Negative	Nil	Discharged	Mechanical thrombectomy	Vertebral-basilar infarct	CTA
	48	Case series	Spain	M	Left Bulbar carotid Artery dissection	Nil	D-dimer = 329 ng/ml, Ferritin = 361 µg/L	Mild	NM	Negative	Day 1	Discharged	Conservative	Right parietal subacute infarction	CTA
Patel et al. [27]	39	Case report	USA	M	V3-bilateral dissection	Nil	D-Dimer 224ng/ml,Ferritin 42ng/ml	Mild	Headache, neck pain	Negative	DAY 3	Discharged	Conservative-medical	V3-bilateral-stenosis	CTA

RCVS - Reversible cerebral vasoconstriction syndrome; SAH - Subarachnoid hemorrhage; DSA - Digital subtraction angiogram; CTA - Computed tomography angiogram; M - Male; F - Female; MCA - Middle cerebral artery; HT - Hypertension; ICA - Internal carotid artery