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Editor, Senior Moderator
AJR Am J Roentgenol
. 2020 Sep 9.
doi: 10.2214/AJR.20.24364. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related Disseminated Leukoencephalopathy (CRDL): A Retrospective Study of Findings on Brain MRI
Colbey W Freeman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jonathan Masur[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alvand Hassankhani[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ronald L Wolf[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Joshua M Levine[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Suyash Mohan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Among 2,820 inpatients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), 59 (2.1%) underwent brain MRI. Of these patients, six (10.2%) had findings on MRI suspicious for COVID-19 related disseminated leukoencephalopathy (CRDL), characterized by extensive confluent or multifocal white matter lesions (with characteristics and locations atypical for other etiologies), microhemorrhages, diffusion restriction, and enhancement. CRDL is an uncommon but important differential consideration in patients with neurologic manifestations of COVID-19.
. 2020 Sep 9.
doi: 10.2214/AJR.20.24364. Online ahead of print.
COVID-19-Related Disseminated Leukoencephalopathy (CRDL): A Retrospective Study of Findings on Brain MRI
Colbey W Freeman[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Jonathan Masur[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Alvand Hassankhani[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ronald L Wolf[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Joshua M Levine[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Suyash Mohan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32903058
- DOI: 10.2214/AJR.20.24364
Abstract
Among 2,820 inpatients with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), 59 (2.1%) underwent brain MRI. Of these patients, six (10.2%) had findings on MRI suspicious for COVID-19 related disseminated leukoencephalopathy (CRDL), characterized by extensive confluent or multifocal white matter lesions (with characteristics and locations atypical for other etiologies), microhemorrhages, diffusion restriction, and enhancement. CRDL is an uncommon but important differential consideration in patients with neurologic manifestations of COVID-19.