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Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 in Absence of Respiratory Symptoms or Fever

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first described in the Hubei region of China and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The clinical presentation of COVID-19 ranges from...

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Autores principales: Mohamed, Abbas, Qureshi, Ahmad S, Mohamed, Sarah A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868851
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13887
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description The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first described in the Hubei region of China and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The clinical presentation of COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic/mild symptoms to severe illness with associated mortality. The most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19 are cough, myalgia, and headache. Other well-described features include shortness of breath, fever, sore throat, diarrhea, and smell or taste abnormalities. Although COVID-19 infection is primarily a disease of the respiratory system affecting lung parenchyma, it can affect multiple organ systems and cause variable extra-pulmonary symptoms. A broad spectrum of neurologic manifestations has been reported in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection, most probably due to different pathogenic pathways. We report a case of a rare presentation of a COVID-19-positive female who presented with slurred speech, dizziness, and left-sided weakness without the other common symptoms of the disease.
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spelling pubmed-80434182021-04-15 Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 in Absence of Respiratory Symptoms or Fever Mohamed, Abbas Qureshi, Ahmad S Mohamed, Sarah A Cureus Neurology The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), was first described in the Hubei region of China and was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in March 2020. The clinical presentation of COVID-19 ranges from asymptomatic/mild symptoms to severe illness with associated mortality. The most commonly reported symptoms of COVID-19 are cough, myalgia, and headache. Other well-described features include shortness of breath, fever, sore throat, diarrhea, and smell or taste abnormalities. Although COVID-19 infection is primarily a disease of the respiratory system affecting lung parenchyma, it can affect multiple organ systems and cause variable extra-pulmonary symptoms. A broad spectrum of neurologic manifestations has been reported in association with SARS-CoV-2 infection, most probably due to different pathogenic pathways. We report a case of a rare presentation of a COVID-19-positive female who presented with slurred speech, dizziness, and left-sided weakness without the other common symptoms of the disease. Cureus 2021-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8043418/ /pubmed/33868851 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13887 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mohamed et al. https://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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title_fullStr Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 in Absence of Respiratory Symptoms or Fever
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title_short Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 in Absence of Respiratory Symptoms or Fever
title_sort neurological manifestations of covid-19 in absence of respiratory symptoms or fever
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33868851
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13887
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