Encephalomyelitis associated with Covid-19 infection: case report

Gulden Demirci Otluoglu; Ulas Yener; Mustafa Kemal Demir; Baran Yilmaz

doi:10.1080/02688697.2020.1787342

Encephalomyelitis associated with Covid-19 infection: case report

Br J Neurosurg. 2023 Jun;37(3):396-398. doi: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1787342. Epub 2020 Jul 7.

Authors

Gulden Demirci Otluoglu¹, Ulas Yener², Mustafa Kemal Demir³, Baran Yilmaz¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Neurosurgery, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Neurological Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
³ Department of Radiology, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey.

PMID: 32633581
DOI: 10.1080/02688697.2020.1787342

Abstract

We describe a COVID-19 patient who presented with persistent headache and anosmia that was related to viral encephalomyelitis with acute lesions on MRI in both the brain and upper cervical cord.

Keywords: Covid-19; differential diagnosis; encephalomyelitis; magnetic resonance imaging.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Brain / pathology
COVID-19* / complications
COVID-19* / pathology
Encephalomyelitis* / diagnostic imaging
Encephalomyelitis* / pathology
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Spinal Cord / pathology