Soh Peter, Doan Ninh, Manning Bailey, Doan Hayley
Neurology, University of South Alabama, Mobile, USA.
Neurosurgery, Baptist South Hospital, Montgomery, USA.
Cureus. 2020 Nov 4;12(11):e11327. doi: 10.7759/cureus.11327.
A 53-year-old female admitted to the hospital for generalized weakness, fever, and cough, tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). She experienced cardiac arrest and then developed a deep-venous thrombosis and pneumonia. She then developed new-onset paraplegia due to an epidural abscess found on thoracic-spine imaging. After surgical removal of the epidural abscess, the patient improved clinically. This is a unique case report of a patient developing paraplegia secondary to an epidural abscess as a serious complication of COVID-19 infection.
一名53岁女性因全身无力、发热和咳嗽入院，新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）检测呈阳性。她发生了心脏骤停，随后出现了深静脉血栓形成和肺炎。之后，由于胸椎影像学检查发现硬膜外脓肿，她出现了新发截瘫。在手术切除硬膜外脓肿后，患者临床症状有所改善。这是一例因硬膜外脓肿继发截瘫作为COVID-19感染严重并发症的独特病例报告。
