Abstract
Evidence of involvement of the nervous system in COVID-19 disease is accumulating. We describe a case of a 53-year-old man presented with classic syndrome of transient global amnesia with symptoms lasting less than 24 hours and mild transient unexplained fever. Workup including brain MRI, electroencephalogram, and chest X ray was negative and the patient was discharged. The day after discharge, the patient started to experience the classic respiratory and systemic COVID-19 illness and was eventually readmitted with hypoxic respiratory failure and positive COVID-19 test a week after the first hospital discharge. The case highlights the importance of neurological syndromes as presenting prodrome to the respiratory illness of COVID-19.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 84-86 |
Number of pages | 3 |
Journal | The Neurohospitalist |
Volume | 11 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2021 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2020.
Keywords
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- transient global amnesia