Similar patterns of [18F]-FDG brain PET hypometabolism in paediatric and adult patients with long COVID: a paediatric case series.

Aurelie MorandJacques-Yves CampionAnne LepineEmmanuelle BosdureLéa LucianiSerge CammilleriBrigitte ChabrolEric Guedj

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)

These results provide arguments in favour of possible long COVID in children, with a similar functional brain involvement to those found in adults, regardless of age and initial severity.

Keyphrases

coronavirus disease
sars cov
resting state
intensive care unit
pet ct
white matter
positron emission tomography
emergency department
pet imaging
functional connectivity
computed tomography
young adults
cerebral ischemia
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
subarachnoid hemorrhage