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01-12-2020 | Stroke | Pictorial Essay

Neurological emergencies associated with COVID-19: stroke and beyond

Authors: Amit Agarwal, Marco Pinho, Karuna Raj, Frank F. Yu, Girish Bathla, Michael Achilleos, Thomas ONeill, Michael Still, Joseph Maldjian

Published in: Emergency Radiology | Issue 6/2020

Abstract

Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a global pandemic on March 1, 2020. Neurological manifestations are now being reported worldwide, including emergent presentation with acute neurological changes as well as a comorbidity in hospitalized patients. There is limited knowledge on the neurologic manifestations of COVID-19 at present, with a wide array of neurological complications reported, ranging from ischemic stroke to acute demyelination and encephalitis. We report five cases of COVID-19 presenting to the ER with acute neurological symptoms, over the course of 1 month. This includes two cases of ischemic stroke, one with large-vessel occlusion and one with embolic infarcts. The remainders of the cases include acute tumefactive demyelination, isolated cytotoxic edema of the corpus callosum with subarachnoid hemorrhage, and posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES).

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Title: Neurological emergencies associated with COVID-19: stroke and beyond
Authors: Amit Agarwal
Marco Pinho
Karuna Raj
Frank F. Yu
Girish Bathla
Michael Achilleos
Thomas ONeill
Michael Still
Joseph Maldjian
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Keywords: Stroke
Edema
COVID-19
Posterior Reversible Encephalopathy Syndrome
Published in: Emergency Radiology / Issue 6/2020
Print ISSN: 1070-3004
Electronic ISSN: 1438-1435
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10140-020-01837-7

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