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COVID-19-Induced Encephalopathy: A Case Report

While COVID-19 is known to cause common neurological manifestations such as loss of taste and smell, headaches, and myalgias, rare and severe neurological complications can also occur. We describe the hospitalization of a middle-aged Caucasian woman who presented with altered mental status and an ab...

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Autores principales: Karmilkar, Kunal, Patel, Aditi, Patel, Nehal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10421600/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37575832
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41788
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description While COVID-19 is known to cause common neurological manifestations such as loss of taste and smell, headaches, and myalgias, rare and severe neurological complications can also occur. We describe the hospitalization of a middle-aged Caucasian woman who presented with altered mental status and an absence of moderate-severe pulmonary symptoms. The patient tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced a tonic-clonic seizure six days after admission. Diagnostic testing, including cerebrospinal fluid analysis, blood cultures, urine cultures, brain imaging, and electroencephalograms were unremarkable, indicating a global encephalopathic state. This case highlights the need for clinicians to anticipate neurological complications when managing patients with COVID-19, especially when respiratory symptoms are minimal or absent. Moreover, further research on COVID-19-induced encephalopathy is crucial to improve patient outcomes and inform clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-104216002023-08-12 COVID-19-Induced Encephalopathy: A Case Report Karmilkar, Kunal Patel, Aditi Patel, Nehal Cureus Internal Medicine While COVID-19 is known to cause common neurological manifestations such as loss of taste and smell, headaches, and myalgias, rare and severe neurological complications can also occur. We describe the hospitalization of a middle-aged Caucasian woman who presented with altered mental status and an absence of moderate-severe pulmonary symptoms. The patient tested positive for COVID-19 and experienced a tonic-clonic seizure six days after admission. Diagnostic testing, including cerebrospinal fluid analysis, blood cultures, urine cultures, brain imaging, and electroencephalograms were unremarkable, indicating a global encephalopathic state. This case highlights the need for clinicians to anticipate neurological complications when managing patients with COVID-19, especially when respiratory symptoms are minimal or absent. Moreover, further research on COVID-19-induced encephalopathy is crucial to improve patient outcomes and inform clinical practice. Cureus 2023-07-12 /pmc/articles/PMC10421600/ /pubmed/37575832 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.41788 Text en Copyright © 2023, Karmilkar 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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