COVID-19-related acute necrotizing encephalopathy with brain stem involvement in a patient with aplastic anemia.
Luke DixonJames VarleyAnastassia GontsarovaDermot H MallonFrancesca TonaDavid MuirAsad LuqmaniIeuan Harri JenkinsRichard St John NicholasBrynmor JonesAlex EverittPublished in: Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation (2020)
COVID-19 may be associated with an acute severe encephalopathy and, in this case, was considered most likely to represent an immune-mediated phenomenon. As the pandemic continues, we anticipate that the spectrum of neurologic presentation will broaden. It will be important to delineate the full clinical range of emergent COVID-19-related neurologic disease.
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