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Acute Blindness as a Complication of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2

Several neurological manifestations can occur in the acute phase or in post-infection severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In certain cases, they can even reveal the disease. Although some may be consequences of direct cellular viral invasion, many represent post-infectious...

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Autores principales: Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra, Sekhsoukh, Rachid, Aziouaz, Faiza, Mebrouk, Yassine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367838
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16857
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author Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra
Sekhsoukh, Rachid
Aziouaz, Faiza
Mebrouk, Yassine
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description Several neurological manifestations can occur in the acute phase or in post-infection severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In certain cases, they can even reveal the disease. Although some may be consequences of direct cellular viral invasion, many represent post-infectious inflammation mediated by autoimmune mechanisms. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was initially consulted for acute blindness without optic neuritis. Brain MRI revealed nonspecific demyelinating lesions without any radiological signs of optic neuritis. The patient underwent an exhaustive assessment and then the diagnosis of optic neuritis with a normal orbital MRI following a SARS-CoV-2 infection was reached.
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spelling pubmed-83311742021-08-06 Acute Blindness as a Complication of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra Sekhsoukh, Rachid Aziouaz, Faiza Mebrouk, Yassine Cureus Neurology Several neurological manifestations can occur in the acute phase or in post-infection severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). In certain cases, they can even reveal the disease. Although some may be consequences of direct cellular viral invasion, many represent post-infectious inflammation mediated by autoimmune mechanisms. We report the case of a 60-year-old woman who was initially consulted for acute blindness without optic neuritis. Brain MRI revealed nonspecific demyelinating lesions without any radiological signs of optic neuritis. The patient underwent an exhaustive assessment and then the diagnosis of optic neuritis with a normal orbital MRI following a SARS-CoV-2 infection was reached. Cureus 2021-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC8331174/ /pubmed/34367838 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16857 Text en Copyright © 2021, Mabrouki 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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Mabrouki, Fatima Zahra
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Acute Blindness as a Complication of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2
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title_short Acute Blindness as a Complication of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34367838
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16857
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