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An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection
We report the case of a 13-year-old patient, female, born in Northern Italy, who presented with an acute episode of aphasia, lasting about 15 min, accompanied by left arm dysesthesia. The state of consciousness remained preserved throughout the episode. After a first clinical evaluation at second-le...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070983 |
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author | Scaglione, Marco Napoli, Flavia Prato, Giulia Severino, Mariasavina Bertamino, Marta Signa, Sara Maghnie, Mohamad |
author_facet | Scaglione, Marco Napoli, Flavia Prato, Giulia Severino, Mariasavina Bertamino, Marta Signa, Sara Maghnie, Mohamad |
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description | We report the case of a 13-year-old patient, female, born in Northern Italy, who presented with an acute episode of aphasia, lasting about 15 min, accompanied by left arm dysesthesia. The state of consciousness remained preserved throughout the episode. After a first clinical evaluation at second-level hospital, the patient was sent to our institute for further investigations. Brain MRI performed at admission showed no noteworthy structural alterations. Electroencephalogram was not significant, as was the echocardiographic examination. ECG was normal, except for a corrected-QT at the upper limits of the normal range for age and gender. The neurological examination was substantially normal for the entire duration of the hospital stay. The symptomatology initially described has never reappeared. Blood tests were substantially negative, in particular thrombophilic screening excluded hereditary-familial thrombophilic diseases. Color doppler ultrasound of the supra-aortic trunks, splanchnic vessels and lower limbs were also normal. Only positivity to SARS-CoV-2 serology is reported. In the recent clinical history there were no symptoms attributable to symptomatic coronavirus infection. |
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spelling | pubmed-93225072022-07-27 An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection Scaglione, Marco Napoli, Flavia Prato, Giulia Severino, Mariasavina Bertamino, Marta Signa, Sara Maghnie, Mohamad Children (Basel) Case Report We report the case of a 13-year-old patient, female, born in Northern Italy, who presented with an acute episode of aphasia, lasting about 15 min, accompanied by left arm dysesthesia. The state of consciousness remained preserved throughout the episode. After a first clinical evaluation at second-level hospital, the patient was sent to our institute for further investigations. Brain MRI performed at admission showed no noteworthy structural alterations. Electroencephalogram was not significant, as was the echocardiographic examination. ECG was normal, except for a corrected-QT at the upper limits of the normal range for age and gender. The neurological examination was substantially normal for the entire duration of the hospital stay. The symptomatology initially described has never reappeared. Blood tests were substantially negative, in particular thrombophilic screening excluded hereditary-familial thrombophilic diseases. Color doppler ultrasound of the supra-aortic trunks, splanchnic vessels and lower limbs were also normal. Only positivity to SARS-CoV-2 serology is reported. In the recent clinical history there were no symptoms attributable to symptomatic coronavirus infection. MDPI 2022-06-30 /pmc/articles/PMC9322507/ /pubmed/35883967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070983 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Case Report Scaglione, Marco Napoli, Flavia Prato, Giulia Severino, Mariasavina Bertamino, Marta Signa, Sara Maghnie, Mohamad An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title | An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title_full | An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title_fullStr | An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title_full_unstemmed | An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title_short | An Atypical Case of Aphasia: Transitory Ischemic Attack in a 13-Year-Old Patient with Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
title_sort | atypical case of aphasia: transitory ischemic attack in a 13-year-old patient with asymptomatic sars-cov-2 infection |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9322507/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35883967 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/children9070983 |
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