Department of Neurology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
Department of Neuroradiology, Rockefeller Neuroscience Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA.
J Med Virol. 2021 Dec;93(12):6818-6821. doi: 10.1002/jmv.27232. Epub 2021 Aug 5.
Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) first described in Wuhan, China in December 2019, has rapidly spread across the world and become a global public health emergency. Literature on the neurological manifestations of COVID-19 is limited. We report a 24-year-old male, who presented with vertigo, dysarthria, and bradyphrenia 3 weeks after being diagnosed with COVID-19 on nasopharyngeal reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction. The patient was diagnosed with acute cerebellitis based on magnetic resonance imaging features and showed improvement posttreatment with intravenous methylprednisone for 5 days. The scope of this article is to highlight the importance of early identification of neurological symptoms and timely management as the outcomes may be catastrophic.
2019 年 12 月,在中国武汉首次描述了新型冠状病毒病(COVID-19),该病毒迅速在全球范围内传播,成为全球公共卫生紧急事件。有关 COVID-19 的神经系统表现的文献有限。我们报告了一例 24 岁男性患者,他在鼻咽逆转录聚合酶链反应(RT-PCR)诊断为 COVID-19 3 周后出现眩晕、构音障碍和思维迟缓。根据磁共振成像(MRI)特征,该患者被诊断为急性小脑炎,并在静脉注射甲基强的松龙治疗 5 天后症状改善。本文的目的是强调早期识别神经系统症状和及时治疗的重要性,因为其结果可能是灾难性的。