Seizure in patients with COVID-19.
Amir EmamiNima FadakarAli AkbariMehrzad LotfiMohsen FarazdaghiFatemeh JavanmardiTahereh RezaeiAli Akbar Asadi-PooyaPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2020)
New-onset seizures in critically ill patients with COVID-19 should be considered as acute symptomatic seizures and the treating physician should try to determine the etiology of the seizure and manage the cause immediately and appropriately. Detailed clinical, neurological, imaging, and electrophysiological investigations and attempts to isolate SARS-CoV-2 from CSF may clarify the role played by this virus in causing seizures in these patients.
Keyphrases
- sars cov
- temporal lobe epilepsy
- end stage renal disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- emergency department
- chronic kidney disease
- primary care
- high resolution
- prognostic factors
- peritoneal dialysis
- patient reported outcomes
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- drug induced
- mass spectrometry
- intensive care unit
- brain injury
- coronavirus disease