Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis sequel of COVID encephalitis; a rare presentation

The SARS Covid-19 pneumonia became a pandemic in 2019 affecting millions worldwide and carried a significant high mortality rate. The common presentation of this novel virus is upper and lower respiratory tract infection. However, its popularity as neuropathogen has increased dramatically. Patient p...

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Autores principales: Athar, Iqra, Muhammad, Tariq, Majid, Haris, Khattak, Neelma Naz, Badshah, Mazhar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Hemorrhagic Stroke Association. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8282936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34308299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hest.2021.07.003
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Muhammad, Tariq
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Badshah, Mazhar
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description The SARS Covid-19 pneumonia became a pandemic in 2019 affecting millions worldwide and carried a significant high mortality rate. The common presentation of this novel virus is upper and lower respiratory tract infection. However, its popularity as neuropathogen has increased dramatically. Patient presents a wide range of symptoms. We report a case of Covid-19 encephalitis which was incidentally found to have cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, presented with acute delirium and then developed new onset seizures.
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spelling pubmed-82829362021-07-20 Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis sequel of COVID encephalitis; a rare presentation Athar, Iqra Muhammad, Tariq Majid, Haris Khattak, Neelma Naz Badshah, Mazhar Brain Hemorrhages Case Report The SARS Covid-19 pneumonia became a pandemic in 2019 affecting millions worldwide and carried a significant high mortality rate. The common presentation of this novel virus is upper and lower respiratory tract infection. However, its popularity as neuropathogen has increased dramatically. Patient presents a wide range of symptoms. We report a case of Covid-19 encephalitis which was incidentally found to have cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, presented with acute delirium and then developed new onset seizures. International Hemorrhagic Stroke Association. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). 2021-12 2021-07-16 /pmc/articles/PMC8282936/ /pubmed/34308299 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hest.2021.07.003 Text en © 2021 International Hemorrhagic Stroke Association. Publishing services by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of KeAi Communications Co. Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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title_fullStr Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis sequel of COVID encephalitis; a rare presentation
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title_short Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis sequel of COVID encephalitis; a rare presentation
title_sort cerebral venous sinus thrombosis sequel of covid encephalitis; a rare presentation
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8282936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34308299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hest.2021.07.003
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