Open AccessTransverse myelitis after SARS‐CoV‐2 infection: Report of two cases with COVID‐19
Author(s) -
Advani Soroor,
Hosseini Seyyed MohammadMahdi,
Zali Alireza,
Ommi Davood,
Fatemi Alireza,
Jalili Khoshnoud Reza,
Ashrafi Farzad
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
clinical case reports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 9
ISSN - 2050-0904
DOI - 10.1002/ccr3.5196
Subject(s) - medicine , transverse myelitis , covid-19 , myelitis , acute transverse myelitis , complication , virology , pathology , surgery , multiple sclerosis , immunology , spinal cord , disease , psychiatry , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Transverse myelitis has been reported as a complication of COVID‐19 in recent studies. Here, we report two cases of transverse myelitis related to COVID‐19. Both patients underwent plasma exchange after being treated with antibiotics and corticosteroids which lead to the recovery of one of them.