| Literature DB >> 33480310 |
Mamdouh Eissa1, Mohamed Abdelhady1, Hosam Alqatami1, Khaled Salem1, Ahmed Own1, Ahmed H El Beltagi1,2.
Abstract
The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, became rapidly recognised by variable phonotypic expressions that involve most major body organs. Neurological complications of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease are increasingly encountered in patients with COVID-19 infection, more frequently in patients with severe infection, and develop as a consequence of the neurotropic potential of this virus, secondary cytokine storm and acquired syndrome of COVID-19 coagulopathy. Spinal cord involvement after COVID-19 more commonly includes infectious transverse myelitis, para and post infection myelopathy and, rarely, spinal cord ischaemia related to increased coagulopathy with thromboembolic consequences. We herein report a COVID-19-positive patient with increased coagulopathy and vertebral artery thrombosis leading to posterior circulation and subsequent spinal cord infarction.Entities:
Keywords: COVID-19; spinal cord, ischaemia
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Year: 2021 PMID: 33480310 PMCID: PMC8165895 DOI: 10.1177/1971400921988925
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neuroradiol J ISSN: 1971-4009