Covid-19 associated acute encephalopathy features on computed tomography: A case report

Ayla Turkar; Hediye Pınar Günbey

doi:10.28982/josam.771230

Authors

Ayla Turkar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6484-0039
Hediye Pınar Günbey https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5288-5590

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.28982/josam.771230

Keywords:

covid, brain, imaging, CT

Abstract

More than 83,000,000 individuals have encountered Covid-19 disease, caused by novel severe acute respiratory syndrome - Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2). Besides systemic and respiratory symptoms, neurologic involvement has begun to be discussed recently. As severe involvement, only a few meningoencephalitis and encephalopathy cases were reported in the literature. We herein present a 65-year-old male Covid-19 patient with signs of hemorrhagic encephalopathy, along with literature review.

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