Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report

Cases of severe central nervous system (CNS) complications have been reported in relation to coronavirus-19 (COVID-19). Cases of encephalitis have been reported primarily in older patients with multiple comorbidities. We present a case of encephalitis in a young female patient with a history of chro...

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Autores principales: Kim, Andrew, Valdez, Cristian, Truman, Weston, Trad, George, Solomon, Cordelia, McWhorter, Yi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171118/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37182039
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37373
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author Kim, Andrew
Valdez, Cristian
Truman, Weston
Trad, George
Solomon, Cordelia
McWhorter, Yi
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description Cases of severe central nervous system (CNS) complications have been reported in relation to coronavirus-19 (COVID-19). Cases of encephalitis have been reported primarily in older patients with multiple comorbidities. We present a case of encephalitis in a young female patient with a history of chronic marijuana use that presented with nausea, vomiting, and acute altered mental status. Extensive testing for infectious and autoimmune causes of encephalitis were negative, except for a positive COVID-19 test. She was treated with steroids and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) and improved with residual mutism.
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spelling pubmed-101711182023-05-11 Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report Kim, Andrew Valdez, Cristian Truman, Weston Trad, George Solomon, Cordelia McWhorter, Yi Cureus Internal Medicine Cases of severe central nervous system (CNS) complications have been reported in relation to coronavirus-19 (COVID-19). Cases of encephalitis have been reported primarily in older patients with multiple comorbidities. We present a case of encephalitis in a young female patient with a history of chronic marijuana use that presented with nausea, vomiting, and acute altered mental status. Extensive testing for infectious and autoimmune causes of encephalitis were negative, except for a positive COVID-19 test. She was treated with steroids and intravenous immune globulin (IVIG) and improved with residual mutism. Cureus 2023-04-10 /pmc/articles/PMC10171118/ /pubmed/37182039 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.37373 Text en Copyright © 2023, Kim et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Kim, Andrew
Valdez, Cristian
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Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title_full Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title_fullStr Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title_short Encephalopathy in a Young Female With COVID-19: A Case Report
title_sort encephalopathy in a young female with covid-19: a case report
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10171118/
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