Acute encephalopathy with elevated CSF inflammatory markers as the initial presentation of COVID-19

Background COVID-19 is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome virus SARS-CoV-2. It is widely recognized as a respiratory pathogen, but neurologic complications can be the presenting manifestation in a subset of infected patients. Case presentation We describe a 78-year old immunocompromised...

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Published in:	BMC neurology Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 248 - 5
Main Authors:	Farhadian, Shelli, Glick, Laura R., Vogels, Chantal B. F., Thomas, Jared, Chiarella, Jennifer, Casanovas-Massana, Arnau, Zhou, Jing, Odio, Camila, Vijayakumar, Pavithra, Geng, Bertie, Fournier, John, Bermejo, Santos, Fauver, Joseph R., Alpert, Tara, Wyllie, Anne L., Turcotte, Cynthia, Steinle, Matthew, Paczkowski, Patrick, Dela Cruz, Charles, Wilen, Craig, Ko, Albert I., MacKay, Sean, Grubaugh, Nathan D., Spudich, Serena, Barakat, Lydia Aoun
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 18.06.2020 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Acute Disease Age Aged Betacoronavirus Biomarkers - cerebrospinal fluid Blood Case Report Central nervous system Cerebrospinal fluid Coronavirus Infections Coronaviruses COVID-19 Cytokines Cytokines - cerebrospinal fluid Diagnosis Disease Encephalitis, Viral Encephalopathy Female Health aspects Hospitals Humans Illnesses Infections Inflammation Invasiveness Laboratories Magnetic resonance imaging Medicine Medicine & Public Health Metabolism Nervous system Neurochemistry Neurocritical care Neuroinflammation Neurological complications Neurology Neurosurgery Pandemics Patients Plasma Pneumonia, Viral Proteins SARS-CoV-2 Seizures Seizures (Medicine) Severe acute respiratory syndrome Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 China COVID-19 Neuroinflammation SARS-CoV-2
ISSN:	1471-2377, 1471-2377
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