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Brain death in a vaccinated patient with COVID-19 infection

We present a case of brain death in a vaccinated, immunocompromised patient who presented with COVID-19 pneumonia. Imaging was characterized by diffuse cerebral edema, pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage, and no antegrade flow above the terminal internal carotid arteries. To our knowledge, this is the fi...

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Autores principales: Watchmaker, Jennifer M., Belani, Puneet B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34656887
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.09.020
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description We present a case of brain death in a vaccinated, immunocompromised patient who presented with COVID-19 pneumonia. Imaging was characterized by diffuse cerebral edema, pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage, and no antegrade flow above the terminal internal carotid arteries. To our knowledge, this is the first case report with such findings in a vaccinated patient.
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spelling pubmed-85026852021-10-12 Brain death in a vaccinated patient with COVID-19 infection Watchmaker, Jennifer M. Belani, Puneet B. Clin Imaging Neuroradiology We present a case of brain death in a vaccinated, immunocompromised patient who presented with COVID-19 pneumonia. Imaging was characterized by diffuse cerebral edema, pseudo-subarachnoid hemorrhage, and no antegrade flow above the terminal internal carotid arteries. To our knowledge, this is the first case report with such findings in a vaccinated patient. Elsevier Inc. 2022-01 2021-10-11 /pmc/articles/PMC8502685/ /pubmed/34656887 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.clinimag.2021.09.020 Text en © 2021 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. 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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Watchmaker, Jennifer M.
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Brain death in a vaccinated patient with COVID-19 infection
title Brain death in a vaccinated patient with COVID-19 infection
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title_short Brain death in a vaccinated patient with COVID-19 infection
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topic Neuroradiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8502685/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34656887
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