Clinical, cerebrospinal fluid, and neuroimaging findings in COVID-19 encephalopathy: a case series.
Raphael de Luca E TumaBruno Fukelmann GuedesRafael Bernhart CarraBruno Diógenes IepsenJúlia Chartouni RodriguesAntonio Edvan Camelo FilhoGabriel Taricani KubotaMaíra Medeiros Honorato FerrariAdalberto Studart NetoMariana Hiromi Manoel OkuSara TerrimCesar Castello Branco LopesCarlos Eduardo Borges Passos-NetoMatheus Dalben FiorentinoJulia Carvalhinho Carlos DE SouzaJosé Pedro Soares BaimaTomás Fraga Ferreira DA SilvaIago Navas PerissinottiMaria da Graça Morais MartinMarcia Rubia Rodrigues GonÇalvesIda FortiniJerusa SmidTarso AdoniLeandro Tavares LucatoRicardo NitriniHélio Rodrigues GomesLuiz Henrique Martins CastroPublished in: Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology (2021)
In our consecutive series with 43 encephalopathy cases, neuroimaging and CSF analysis did not support the role of direct viral CNS invasion or CNS inflammation as the cause of encephalopathy.