Abstract
The Coronavirus disease due to SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan city, China in December 2019 and rapidly spread to more than 200 countries as a global health pandemic. There are more than 3.5 million confirmed cases and around 165,000 to 243,000 fatalities. The primary manifestation is respiratory and cardiac but neurological features are also being reported in the literature as case reports and case series. The most common reported symptoms to include headache and dizziness followed by encephalopathy and delirium. Among the complications noted are Cerebrovascular accident, Guillian barre syndrome, acute transverse myelitis, and acute encephalitis. The most common peripheral manifestation was hyposmia. It is further noted that sometimes the neurological manifestations can precede the typical features like fever and cough and later on typical manifestations develop in these patients. Hence a high index of suspicion is required for timely diagnosis and isolation of cases to prevent the spread in neurology wards. We present a narrative review of the neurological manifestations and complications of COVID-19. Our aim is to update the neurologists and physicians working with suspected cases of COVID-19 about the possible neurological presentations and the probable neurological complications resulting from this novel virus infection.
TY - JOUR
T1 - Neurological manifestations and complications of COVID-19: A literature review.
AU - Ahmad,Imran,
AU - Rathore,Farooq Azam,
Y1 - 2020/05/06/
PY - 2020/04/24/received
PY - 2020/05/04/accepted
PY - 2020/5/16/pubmed
PY - 2020/7/4/medline
PY - 2020/5/16/entrez
KW - Clinical features
KW - Coronavirus
KW - Delirium
KW - Encephalitis
KW - Headache
KW - Neurology
KW - Stroke
SP - 8
EP - 12
JF - Journal of clinical neuroscience : official journal of the Neurosurgical Society of Australasia
JO - J Clin Neurosci
VL - 77
N2 - The Coronavirus disease due to SARS-CoV-2 emerged in Wuhan city, China in December 2019 and rapidly spread to more than 200 countries as a global health pandemic. There are more than 3.5 million confirmed cases and around 165,000 to 243,000 fatalities. The primary manifestation is respiratory and cardiac but neurological features are also being reported in the literature as case reports and case series. The most common reported symptoms to include headache and dizziness followed by encephalopathy and delirium. Among the complications noted are Cerebrovascular accident, Guillian barre syndrome, acute transverse myelitis, and acute encephalitis. The most common peripheral manifestation was hyposmia. It is further noted that sometimes the neurological manifestations can precede the typical features like fever and cough and later on typical manifestations develop in these patients. Hence a high index of suspicion is required for timely diagnosis and isolation of cases to prevent the spread in neurology wards. We present a narrative review of the neurological manifestations and complications of COVID-19. Our aim is to update the neurologists and physicians working with suspected cases of COVID-19 about the possible neurological presentations and the probable neurological complications resulting from this novel virus infection.
SN - 1532-2653
UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/32409215/Neurological_manifestations_and_complications_of_COVID_19:_A_literature_review_
L2 - https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0967-5868(20)31078-X
DB - PRIME
DP - Unbound Medicine
ER -