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Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review
Neurological manifestations are common in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We present three cases of COVID-19 patients with seizures. Two patients had a history of seizures but very well controlled. They presented with seizure activity likely triggered by COVID-19. The third patient had...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850246 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9378 |
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description | Neurological manifestations are common in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We present three cases of COVID-19 patients with seizures. Two patients had a history of seizures but very well controlled. They presented with seizure activity likely triggered by COVID-19. The third patient had no history of seizures and presented with new onset of seizure activity. All these patients were routinely screened for COVID-19 on admission and tested positive on nasopharyngeal real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR). None of these patients had respiratory symptoms. Electroencephalography (EEG) was abnormal in all three patients. All these patients recovered and were discharged in a stable condition. |
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spelling | pubmed-74449902020-08-25 Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review Ashraf, Muddasir Sajed, Sulaiman Cureus Internal Medicine Neurological manifestations are common in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We present three cases of COVID-19 patients with seizures. Two patients had a history of seizures but very well controlled. They presented with seizure activity likely triggered by COVID-19. The third patient had no history of seizures and presented with new onset of seizure activity. All these patients were routinely screened for COVID-19 on admission and tested positive on nasopharyngeal real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR). None of these patients had respiratory symptoms. Electroencephalography (EEG) was abnormal in all three patients. All these patients recovered and were discharged in a stable condition. Cureus 2020-07-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7444990/ /pubmed/32850246 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9378 Text en Copyright © 2020, Ashraf et al. http://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 | Internal Medicine Ashraf, Muddasir Sajed, Sulaiman Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title | Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title_full | Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title_fullStr | Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title_full_unstemmed | Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title_short | Seizures Related to Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Case Series and Literature Review |
title_sort | seizures related to coronavirus disease (covid-19): case series and literature review |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7444990/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32850246 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9378 |
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