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Covid-19 associated acute encephalopathy features on computed tomography: A case report

Author(s) -

Ayla Türkar,

Hediye Pınar Günbey

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

journal of surgery and medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2602-2079

DOI - 10.28982/josam.771230

Subject(s) - encephalopathy , covid-19 , medicine , meningoencephalitis , computed tomography , coronavirus , pediatrics , intensive care medicine , disease , pathology , radiology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak

More than 83,000,000 individuals have encountered Covid-19 disease, caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome - Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Besides systemic and respiratory symptoms, neurologic involvement has begun to be discussed recently. As severe involvement, only a few meningoencephalitis and encephalopathy cases were reported in the literature. We herein present a 65-year-old male Covid-19 patient with signs of hemorrhagic encephalopathy, along with literature review.

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