Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis: A rare form of COVID-19's neurotropism

INTRODUCTION: the COVID-19 pandemic still accounts for thousands of cases every day. It's neurological involvement has been well documented most likely due to auto-immune mechanisms than the virus itself. CASE REPORT: we report the case of a 38 years old women who developed an Acute Disseminate...

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Autores principales: Berrichi, Samia, Bouayed, Zakaria, Berrajaa, Sara, Bahouh, Choukri, Oulalite, Amine Mohammed, Douqchi, Badie, Bella, Islam, Bkiyar, Houssam, Housni, Brahim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8504072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34659750
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2021.102940
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: the COVID-19 pandemic still accounts for thousands of cases every day. It's neurological involvement has been well documented most likely due to auto-immune mechanisms than the virus itself. CASE REPORT: we report the case of a 38 years old women who developed an Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis following a COVID-19 infection, with a favorable outcome after immunosuppressive therapy. DISCUSSION: In this chapter, we discuss ADEM's pathogenesis as well as its clinical and radiological features before detailing its relationship with infectious and vaccination episodes. We also discuss how our patient disease evolved. CONCLUSION: Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis is an immune-mediated disorder in which the widespread inflammation of the brain and spinal cord is responsible for a variety of symptoms. The novel COVID-19 virus and its vaccine are both a newly incriminated etiologies of this demyelinating disorder.

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