A Case of Fatal Catatonia in a COVID-19 Patient

COVID-19 has been associated with numerous complications, primarily pulmonary in origin. However, there have been several neurological sequelae of COVID-19 as well, one of the rarer complications is catatonia. In this already vulnerable population, it is imperative for the early diagnosis of cataton...

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Autores principales: Kwon, Hyuck-Jin, Patel, Krunal H, Ramirez, Miguel, McFarlane, Isabel M
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430139
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16529
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author Kwon, Hyuck-Jin
Patel, Krunal H
Ramirez, Miguel
McFarlane, Isabel M
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description COVID-19 has been associated with numerous complications, primarily pulmonary in origin. However, there have been several neurological sequelae of COVID-19 as well, one of the rarer complications is catatonia. In this already vulnerable population, it is imperative for the early diagnosis of catatonia and starting treatment. Delay in treatment of catatonia can be fatal from secondary complications as seen here. We discuss a case of a 62-year-old female that presented with mild COVID pneumonia, subsequently developed catatonia precipitated by COVID-19 encephalitis, which ultimately led to her death from complications.
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spelling pubmed-83780962021-08-23 A Case of Fatal Catatonia in a COVID-19 Patient Kwon, Hyuck-Jin Patel, Krunal H Ramirez, Miguel McFarlane, Isabel M Cureus Internal Medicine COVID-19 has been associated with numerous complications, primarily pulmonary in origin. However, there have been several neurological sequelae of COVID-19 as well, one of the rarer complications is catatonia. In this already vulnerable population, it is imperative for the early diagnosis of catatonia and starting treatment. Delay in treatment of catatonia can be fatal from secondary complications as seen here. We discuss a case of a 62-year-old female that presented with mild COVID pneumonia, subsequently developed catatonia precipitated by COVID-19 encephalitis, which ultimately led to her death from complications. Cureus 2021-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8378096/ /pubmed/34430139 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16529 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kwon 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_short A Case of Fatal Catatonia in a COVID-19 Patient
title_sort case of fatal catatonia in a covid-19 patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8378096/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34430139
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16529
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