Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management?

This case report examines a previously immunocompetent male that was treated with a prolonged course of corticosteroids for COVID pneumonia. He then returned with worsening headaches followed by flaccid paralysis of extremities due to cerebral and spinal cord abscesses secondary to Nocardia farcinic...

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Autores principales: DiMeglio, Matthew, Shaikh, Hamadullah, Newman, Jennifer, Vazsquez-Rubio, Gustavo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01599
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author DiMeglio, Matthew
Shaikh, Hamadullah
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description This case report examines a previously immunocompetent male that was treated with a prolonged course of corticosteroids for COVID pneumonia. He then returned with worsening headaches followed by flaccid paralysis of extremities due to cerebral and spinal cord abscesses secondary to Nocardia farcinica. A review of the literature on the mechanism of immunosuppression with COVID infection and corticosteroids is provided.
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spelling pubmed-94033382022-08-26 Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management? DiMeglio, Matthew Shaikh, Hamadullah Newman, Jennifer Vazsquez-Rubio, Gustavo IDCases Case Report This case report examines a previously immunocompetent male that was treated with a prolonged course of corticosteroids for COVID pneumonia. He then returned with worsening headaches followed by flaccid paralysis of extremities due to cerebral and spinal cord abscesses secondary to Nocardia farcinica. A review of the literature on the mechanism of immunosuppression with COVID infection and corticosteroids is provided. Elsevier 2022-08-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9403338/ /pubmed/36032175 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01599 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management?
title Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management?
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title_fullStr Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management?
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title_short Nocardiosis of the Central Nervous System: A rare complication of COVID management?
title_sort nocardiosis of the central nervous system: a rare complication of covid management?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9403338/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36032175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01599
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