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Seizure and neuropsychiatric compromise as onset of SARS-CoV-2 associated encephalitis

Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis is rare, especially as the first manifestation of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis can initially manifest with seizures and neuropsychiatric abnormalities, worsen to the point of coma, and occasionally lead to death. Patients with infectious S...

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Autores principales: Finsterer, Josef, Scorza, Fulvio A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8863329/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35224562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2022.100029
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description Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis is rare, especially as the first manifestation of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis can initially manifest with seizures and neuropsychiatric abnormalities, worsen to the point of coma, and occasionally lead to death. Patients with infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis require comprehensive evaluation and forced treatment in order to improve the often poor outcome.
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spelling pubmed-88633292022-02-23 Seizure and neuropsychiatric compromise as onset of SARS-CoV-2 associated encephalitis Finsterer, Josef Scorza, Fulvio A. Psychiatry Res Commun Article Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis is rare, especially as the first manifestation of a SARS-CoV-2 infection. Infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis can initially manifest with seizures and neuropsychiatric abnormalities, worsen to the point of coma, and occasionally lead to death. Patients with infectious SARS-CoV-2 meningitis require comprehensive evaluation and forced treatment in order to improve the often poor outcome. The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. 2022-03 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8863329/ /pubmed/35224562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psycom.2022.100029 Text en © 2022 The Author(s) 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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