Spinal Cord Injury From an Epidural Abscess as a Serious Complication of COVID-19 Infection

A 53-year-old female admitted to the hospital for generalized weakness, fever, and cough, tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). She experienced cardiac arrest and then developed a deep-venous thrombosis and pneumonia. She then developed new-onset paraplegia due to an epidural absc...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Soh, Peter, Doan, Ninh, Manning, Bailey, Doan, Hayley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717083/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33282600
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11327
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Sumario:A 53-year-old female admitted to the hospital for generalized weakness, fever, and cough, tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). She experienced cardiac arrest and then developed a deep-venous thrombosis and pneumonia. She then developed new-onset paraplegia due to an epidural abscess found on thoracic-spine imaging. After surgical removal of the epidural abscess, the patient improved clinically. This is a unique case report of a patient developing paraplegia secondary to an epidural abscess as a serious complication of COVID-19 infection.

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