Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
Case Reports
. 2020 Mar 21;12(3):e7352.
doi: 10.7759/cureus.7352.

Neurological Complications of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Encephalopathy

Asia Filatov  1 , Pamraj Sharma  1 , Fawzi Hindi  1 , Patricio S Espinosa  2
Affiliations
Case Reports

Neurological Complications of Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19): Encephalopathy

Asia Filatov et al. Cureus. .

Abstract

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic. Neurological complications of COVID-19 have not been reported. Encephalopathy has not been described as a presenting symptom or complication of COVID-19. We report a case of a 74-year-old patient who traveled from Europe to the United States and presented with encephalopathy and COVID-19.

Keywords: covid-19; encephalopathy.

PubMed Disclaimer

Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1. Chest X-ray shows multifocal airspace opacities and “ground-glass opacities”, characteristic signs of COVID-19 infection.
Figure 2
Figure 2. CT scan of the head that shows no acute changes. There is an area of hypodensity in the right temporal region, consistent with patient know prior history of left PCA embolic stroke
Figure 3
Figure 3. EEG shows diffuse slowing and focal slowing sharply contoured waves in the left temporal region. These findings are consistent with an encephalopathy, focal left temporal lobe dysfunction, and possible epileptogenicity.
See this image and copyright information in PMC

References

    1. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. Guan W-J, Ni Z-Y, Hu Y, et al. N Engl J Med. 2020:0. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan, China. Wang D, Hu B, Hu C, et al. JAMA. 2020;323:1061–1069. - PMC - PubMed
    1. Neurological manifestations of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 in Wuhan, China: a retrospective case series study. [Mar;2020 ];https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.22.20026500v1 2020

Publication types

LinkOut - more resources