A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19

Spontaneous non-traumatic spinal hematomyelia, characterized by intramedullary spinal hematoma, is a rare neurological emergency. Bleeding arteriovenous malformation, coagulopathies, and neoplasms are reported causes of this rare diagnosis. The authors present a case of a previously healthy man who...

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Autores principales: Ahmed, Elham, Saleh-Anaraki, Kimia, Onyegbule, Chima, AlAfun, Mamoon, Ammar, Hussam M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456427
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40452
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author Ahmed, Elham
Saleh-Anaraki, Kimia
Onyegbule, Chima
AlAfun, Mamoon
Ammar, Hussam M
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Saleh-Anaraki, Kimia
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AlAfun, Mamoon
Ammar, Hussam M
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description Spontaneous non-traumatic spinal hematomyelia, characterized by intramedullary spinal hematoma, is a rare neurological emergency. Bleeding arteriovenous malformation, coagulopathies, and neoplasms are reported causes of this rare diagnosis. The authors present a case of a previously healthy man who presented with acute paraplegia and was found to have a spontaneous hematomyelia in association with covid infection. He underwent laminectomy and hematoma evacuation but did not recover any neurological function.
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spelling pubmed-103493852023-07-16 A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19 Ahmed, Elham Saleh-Anaraki, Kimia Onyegbule, Chima AlAfun, Mamoon Ammar, Hussam M Cureus Emergency Medicine Spontaneous non-traumatic spinal hematomyelia, characterized by intramedullary spinal hematoma, is a rare neurological emergency. Bleeding arteriovenous malformation, coagulopathies, and neoplasms are reported causes of this rare diagnosis. The authors present a case of a previously healthy man who presented with acute paraplegia and was found to have a spontaneous hematomyelia in association with covid infection. He underwent laminectomy and hematoma evacuation but did not recover any neurological function. Cureus 2023-06-15 /pmc/articles/PMC10349385/ /pubmed/37456427 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40452 Text en Copyright © 2023, Ahmed 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.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Ahmed, Elham
Saleh-Anaraki, Kimia
Onyegbule, Chima
AlAfun, Mamoon
Ammar, Hussam M
A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title_full A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title_fullStr A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title_short A Zebra Diagnosis: A Case of Spontaneous Hematomyelia Associated With COVID-19
title_sort zebra diagnosis: a case of spontaneous hematomyelia associated with covid-19
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10349385/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456427
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.40452
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