Neuroradiol J . Spinal cord infarction in a 41-year-old male patient with COVID-19

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Neuroradiol J


. 2021 Jan 22;1971400921988925.
doi: 10.1177/1971400921988925. Online ahead of print.
Spinal cord infarction in a 41-year-old male patient with COVID-19


Mamdouh Eissa ¹ , Mohamed Abdelhady ¹ , Hosam Alqatami ¹ , Khaled Salem ¹ , Ahmed Own ¹ , Ahmed H El Beltagi ^{1 2}



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• PMID: 33480310
• DOI: 10.1177/1971400921988925

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; spinal cord, ischaemia.