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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Autores principales: Soh, Peter, Doan, Ninh, Manning, Bailey, Doan, Hayley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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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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description 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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spelling pubmed-77170832020-12-05 Spinal Cord Injury From an Epidural Abscess as a Serious Complication of COVID-19 Infection Soh, Peter Doan, Ninh Manning, Bailey Doan, Hayley Cureus Neurology 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. Cureus 2020-11-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7717083/ /pubmed/33282600 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11327 Text en Copyright © 2020, Soh 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.
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Spinal Cord Injury From an Epidural Abscess as a Serious Complication of COVID-19 Infection
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7717083/
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