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.