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Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report
BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of newly discovered symptoms and presentations are emerging. Neurological symptoms of corona virus disease 19 (COVID19) have been reported including central nervous symptoms (CNS), peripheral nervous symptoms (PNS), and skeletal muscular symptoms; however,...
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2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35317189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00119-7 |
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author | Dahshan, Ahmed Abdellatef, Abeer Awad |
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description | BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of newly discovered symptoms and presentations are emerging. Neurological symptoms of corona virus disease 19 (COVID19) have been reported including central nervous symptoms (CNS), peripheral nervous symptoms (PNS), and skeletal muscular symptoms; however, data are scarce about the exact occurrence of neurological affection during COVID-19 infection. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 67-year-old male patient with proven COVID-19 infection who developed acute confusion state, behavioral changes, agitation, and one attack of loss of consciousness 8 days following the infection. Laboratory profile, computed tomography (CT) brain, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis all were normal, and the patients were highly suspicion of autoimmune encephalitis due to COVID-19 infection. The patient received pulse steroid therapy with complete regaining the conscious level. CONCLUSION: This clinical case emphasizes the possible relationship between COVID-19 infection and autoimmune encephalitis. |
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spelling | pubmed-89317892022-03-18 Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report Dahshan, Ahmed Abdellatef, Abeer Awad Egypt J Intern Med Case Report BACKGROUND: During COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of newly discovered symptoms and presentations are emerging. Neurological symptoms of corona virus disease 19 (COVID19) have been reported including central nervous symptoms (CNS), peripheral nervous symptoms (PNS), and skeletal muscular symptoms; however, data are scarce about the exact occurrence of neurological affection during COVID-19 infection. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 67-year-old male patient with proven COVID-19 infection who developed acute confusion state, behavioral changes, agitation, and one attack of loss of consciousness 8 days following the infection. Laboratory profile, computed tomography (CT) brain, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis all were normal, and the patients were highly suspicion of autoimmune encephalitis due to COVID-19 infection. The patient received pulse steroid therapy with complete regaining the conscious level. CONCLUSION: This clinical case emphasizes the possible relationship between COVID-19 infection and autoimmune encephalitis. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2022-03-18 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8931789/ /pubmed/35317189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00119-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Case Report Dahshan, Ahmed Abdellatef, Abeer Awad Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title | Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title_full | Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title_fullStr | Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title_full_unstemmed | Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title_short | Autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of COVID-19 infection: a case report |
title_sort | autoimmune encephalitis as a complication of covid-19 infection: a case report |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8931789/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35317189 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43162-022-00119-7 |
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