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Case Reports
. 2021 Jun;27(3):498-500.
doi: 10.1007/s13365-021-00971-3. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

Limbic encephalitis in a COVID-19 patient?

Luca Chiveri  1 , Elena Verrengia  2 , Francesco Muscia  2 , Graziamaria Nuzzaco  2 , Elisa Raimondi  2 , Emilio Vecchio  2 , Daniela Bompane  3 , Antonino Mazzone  3 , Paolo Fociani  4 , Mario Corbellino  5 , Alessandro Prelle  2
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Case Reports

Limbic encephalitis in a COVID-19 patient?

Luca Chiveri et al. J Neurovirol. 2021 Jun.

Abstract

We describe the case of a 79-year-old woman infected by SARS-CoV-2 and purely neurological confusional syndrome without clinically relevant respiratory disease and NMR alterations of the limbic system.

Keywords: Covid-19; Limbic encephalitis.

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a Lesion observed in the posterior right hippocampus. b A brain NMR repeated after 1 week which resulted to be normal
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