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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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mohamed Abdelhady[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hosam Alqatami[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Khaled Salem[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmed Own[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmed H El Beltagi[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP]
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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.
. 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[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mohamed Abdelhady[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Hosam Alqatami[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Khaled Salem[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmed Own[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Ahmed H El Beltagi[SUP] 1 2 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- 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.