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Cureus
. 2020 Nov 4;12(11):e11327.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.11327.
Spinal Cord Injury From an Epidural Abscess as a Serious Complication of COVID-19 Infection
Peter Soh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ninh Doan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Bailey Manning[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hayley Doan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
A 53-year-old female admitted to the hospital for generalized weakness, fever, and cough, tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). She experienced cardiac arrest and then developed a deep-venous thrombosis and pneumonia. She then developed new-onset paraplegia due to an epidural abscess found on thoracic-spine imaging. After surgical removal of the epidural abscess, the patient improved clinically. This is a unique case report of a patient developing paraplegia secondary to an epidural abscess as a serious complication of COVID-19 infection.
Keywords: covid-19; covid-19 neurological outcomes; epidural abscess; spinal cord injury.
. 2020 Nov 4;12(11):e11327.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.11327.
Spinal Cord Injury From an Epidural Abscess as a Serious Complication of COVID-19 Infection
Peter Soh[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ninh Doan[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Bailey Manning[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hayley Doan[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 33282600
- PMCID: PMC7717083
- DOI: 10.7759/cureus.11327
Abstract
A 53-year-old female admitted to the hospital for generalized weakness, fever, and cough, tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). She experienced cardiac arrest and then developed a deep-venous thrombosis and pneumonia. She then developed new-onset paraplegia due to an epidural abscess found on thoracic-spine imaging. After surgical removal of the epidural abscess, the patient improved clinically. This is a unique case report of a patient developing paraplegia secondary to an epidural abscess as a serious complication of COVID-19 infection.
Keywords: covid-19; covid-19 neurological outcomes; epidural abscess; spinal cord injury.