Post-COVID-19 encephalomyelitis

Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a growing number of cases of acute transverse myelitis associated with COVID-19 have been reported. Here, we present the case of a patient who developed sensory ataxia after COVID-19 with MR lesions suggestive for longitudinal myelitis and i...

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Autores principales: Kim, Ji-Won, Abdullayev, Nuran, Neuneier, Janina, Fink, Gereon R., Lehmann, Helmar C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7957276/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33722301
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-021-00113-4
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description Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a growing number of cases of acute transverse myelitis associated with COVID-19 have been reported. Here, we present the case of a patient who developed sensory ataxia after COVID-19 with MR lesions suggestive for longitudinal myelitis and in the splenium of the corpus callosum. The patient was successfully treated with immunoadsorption.
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spelling pubmed-79572762021-03-15 Post-COVID-19 encephalomyelitis Kim, Ji-Won Abdullayev, Nuran Neuneier, Janina Fink, Gereon R. Lehmann, Helmar C. Neurol Res Pract Letter to the Editor Since the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), a growing number of cases of acute transverse myelitis associated with COVID-19 have been reported. Here, we present the case of a patient who developed sensory ataxia after COVID-19 with MR lesions suggestive for longitudinal myelitis and in the splenium of the corpus callosum. The patient was successfully treated with immunoadsorption. BioMed Central 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7957276/ /pubmed/33722301 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s42466-021-00113-4 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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