Lessons of the month 1: A case of rhombencephalitis as a rare complication of acute COVID-19 infection
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Emma Crawford; Annabel Makan; Harmesh Moudgil; Koottalai Srinivasan; Po Fung Wong; Nawaid Ahmad; Piers Newman; Sam Craik; Devapriya Dev
- Source
- Clin Med (Lond)
- Subject
- Hepatitis
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics
Neurology
medicine.diagnostic_test
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
business.industry
Lessons of the Month
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
Magnetic resonance imaging
General Medicine
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
Neurological findings
030212 general & internal medicine
Brainstem
business
Complication
- Language
- ISSN
- 1473-4893
1470-2118
A 40-year-old man developed acute brainstem dysfunction 3 days after hospital admission with symptoms of the novel SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). Magnetic resonance imaging showed changes in keeping with inflammation of the brainstem and the upper cervical cord, leading to a diagnosis of rhombencephalitis. No other cause explained the patient's abnormal neurological findings. He was managed conservatively with rapid spontaneous improvement in some of his neurological signs and was discharged home with continued neurology follow up.