A Unique Case of COVID-19 Presenting as Focal Seizures With Impaired Awareness

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has very rapidly become a global pandemic with millions of confirmed cases worldwide. In early 2021, viral encephalitis was the first neurological complication associated with COVID-19 and since then rise in cases has been reported with th...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Rupam, Ratnayake, Samantha, Lai, Hobart, Mishra, Shikha, Heidari, Arash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10621287/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37909666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096231208771
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author Sharma, Rupam
Ratnayake, Samantha
Lai, Hobart
Mishra, Shikha
Heidari, Arash
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description Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has very rapidly become a global pandemic with millions of confirmed cases worldwide. In early 2021, viral encephalitis was the first neurological complication associated with COVID-19 and since then rise in cases has been reported with this association. A review highlighting 3 potential mechanisms linking a correlation between seizures and COVID-19 was previously reported. Herein described is a unique case of SARS-CoV2 infection that presented with focal seizure with impaired awareness.
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spelling pubmed-106212872023-11-03 A Unique Case of COVID-19 Presenting as Focal Seizures With Impaired Awareness Sharma, Rupam Ratnayake, Samantha Lai, Hobart Mishra, Shikha Heidari, Arash J Investig Med High Impact Case Rep Case Report Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has very rapidly become a global pandemic with millions of confirmed cases worldwide. In early 2021, viral encephalitis was the first neurological complication associated with COVID-19 and since then rise in cases has been reported with this association. A review highlighting 3 potential mechanisms linking a correlation between seizures and COVID-19 was previously reported. Herein described is a unique case of SARS-CoV2 infection that presented with focal seizure with impaired awareness. SAGE Publications 2023-11-01 /pmc/articles/PMC10621287/ /pubmed/37909666 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23247096231208771 Text en © 2023 American Federation for Medical Research https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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title_sort unique case of covid-19 presenting as focal seizures with impaired awareness
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10621287/
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