COVID-19-Associated Encephalitis: Two Case Reports

The infection with SARS-CoV-2 is primarily associated with respiratory symptoms. Since its appearance, several neurological symptoms have been reported, most commonly headache and anosmia, as well as less frequent complications such as COVID-19-associated encephalitis and meningitis. In this case re...

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Autores principales: Marques, Leandro M, Marques, Sofia R, Costa, Octávia, Freitas, Eduardo, Machado, Álvaro
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Neurology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8927857/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35342667
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23243
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author Marques, Leandro M
Marques, Sofia R
Costa, Octávia
Freitas, Eduardo
Machado, Álvaro
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description The infection with SARS-CoV-2 is primarily associated with respiratory symptoms. Since its appearance, several neurological symptoms have been reported, most commonly headache and anosmia, as well as less frequent complications such as COVID-19-associated encephalitis and meningitis. In this case report, we describe two patients, who were 49- and 50-year-old infected with SARS-CoV-2, who presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and behavioral changes. A diagnosis of acute meningoencephalitis associated with COVID-19 was considered, and both patients had a good response to corticosteroid treatment.
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spelling pubmed-89278572022-03-24 COVID-19-Associated Encephalitis: Two Case Reports Marques, Leandro M Marques, Sofia R Costa, Octávia Freitas, Eduardo Machado, Álvaro Cureus Neurology The infection with SARS-CoV-2 is primarily associated with respiratory symptoms. Since its appearance, several neurological symptoms have been reported, most commonly headache and anosmia, as well as less frequent complications such as COVID-19-associated encephalitis and meningitis. In this case report, we describe two patients, who were 49- and 50-year-old infected with SARS-CoV-2, who presented to the emergency department with altered mental status and behavioral changes. A diagnosis of acute meningoencephalitis associated with COVID-19 was considered, and both patients had a good response to corticosteroid treatment. Cureus 2022-03-17 /pmc/articles/PMC8927857/ /pubmed/35342667 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.23243 Text en Copyright © 2022, Marques 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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Marques, Leandro M
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