The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms

• We describe a patient with acute disseminated encephalitis and COVID-19. • CNS manifestations primarily occurred without evident pulmonary symptoms. • Brain MRI of the patient indicated diffuse confluent white matter hyperintensities. • The patient initially responded to steroids but lastly, died...

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Autores principales: Abdi, Siamak, Ghorbani, Askar, Fatehi, Farzad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier B.V. 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7301801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32590204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117001
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description • We describe a patient with acute disseminated encephalitis and COVID-19. • CNS manifestations primarily occurred without evident pulmonary symptoms. • Brain MRI of the patient indicated diffuse confluent white matter hyperintensities. • The patient initially responded to steroids but lastly, died of status epilepticus. • The occurrence of acute disseminated encephalitis may have been immune-mediated.
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spelling pubmed-73018012020-06-18 The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms Abdi, Siamak Ghorbani, Askar Fatehi, Farzad J Neurol Sci Letter to the Editor • We describe a patient with acute disseminated encephalitis and COVID-19. • CNS manifestations primarily occurred without evident pulmonary symptoms. • Brain MRI of the patient indicated diffuse confluent white matter hyperintensities. • The patient initially responded to steroids but lastly, died of status epilepticus. • The occurrence of acute disseminated encephalitis may have been immune-mediated. Elsevier B.V. 2020-09-15 2020-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7301801/ /pubmed/32590204 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117001 Text en © 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms
title The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms
title_full The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms
title_fullStr The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms
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title_short The association of SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis without prominent clinical pulmonary symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7301801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32590204
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jns.2020.117001
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