Changes in stroke presentation in neo-Covid patients: A case study

A 35 year old male had a generalized seizure a week after symptoms of daily fever, rigors, and throat discomfort. He was hospitalized. Magnetic resonance imaging brain showed multiple bilateral scattered infarcts. COVID-19 swab test came positive. An elaborate panel of tests for young strokes, cardi...

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Autores principales: Kohli, Anoop, Gupta, Charchit, Dutta, Shvet, Madaan, Chirag
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
Materias:
Case Reports & Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7529609/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33024705
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.inat.2020.100949
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Sumario:A 35 year old male had a generalized seizure a week after symptoms of daily fever, rigors, and throat discomfort. He was hospitalized. Magnetic resonance imaging brain showed multiple bilateral scattered infarcts. COVID-19 swab test came positive. An elaborate panel of tests for young strokes, cardiac work-up was normal. At home, he complained of some visual blurring, slowing in thought processing, occasional loss of words. His face became significantly pigmented. A young male, COVID-19 positive, showed multiple scattered infarcts. Exaggerated pro-thrombotic activity of the nature of a cytokine storm, is the probable cause.

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