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Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness

COVID-19 occurs due to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), which has caused havoc globally. It presents with a wide range of symptoms, mainly respiratory symptoms, but with time various neurological manifestations of the disease have also been noted,...

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Autores principales: Gulati, Nihal, Kapila, Saniya, Bhalla Sehgal, Lucky, Sehgal, Vineet, LNU, Priyal
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134097
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28134
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author Gulati, Nihal
Kapila, Saniya
Bhalla Sehgal, Lucky
Sehgal, Vineet
LNU, Priyal
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Kapila, Saniya
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description COVID-19 occurs due to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), which has caused havoc globally. It presents with a wide range of symptoms, mainly respiratory symptoms, but with time various neurological manifestations of the disease have also been noted, like myelitis. This case report aims to shed light on COVID-19-associated myelitis so that potential neurological complications of COVID-19 can be identified and treated timely. We report a case of a 41-year-old male who presented with weakness of all limbs with urinary complaints. He also had a cough and sore throat for the past few days. The MRI scan of the spine showed long segment myelitis in the cervical cord extending from the cervicomedullary junction to the upper end of the C4 vertebral body. COVID-19 myelitis is a rare but severe complication of COVID-19 infection and needs to be discussed.
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spelling pubmed-94823812022-09-20 Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness Gulati, Nihal Kapila, Saniya Bhalla Sehgal, Lucky Sehgal, Vineet LNU, Priyal Cureus Neurology COVID-19 occurs due to infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2), which has caused havoc globally. It presents with a wide range of symptoms, mainly respiratory symptoms, but with time various neurological manifestations of the disease have also been noted, like myelitis. This case report aims to shed light on COVID-19-associated myelitis so that potential neurological complications of COVID-19 can be identified and treated timely. We report a case of a 41-year-old male who presented with weakness of all limbs with urinary complaints. He also had a cough and sore throat for the past few days. The MRI scan of the spine showed long segment myelitis in the cervical cord extending from the cervicomedullary junction to the upper end of the C4 vertebral body. COVID-19 myelitis is a rare but severe complication of COVID-19 infection and needs to be discussed. Cureus 2022-08-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9482381/ /pubmed/36134097 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28134 Text en Copyright © 2022, Gulati 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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Gulati, Nihal
Kapila, Saniya
Bhalla Sehgal, Lucky
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Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
title Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
title_full Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
title_fullStr Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
title_full_unstemmed Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
title_short Myelitis Following COVID-19 Illness
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topic Neurology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9482381/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36134097
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.28134
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