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A young man presenting with encephalopathy and seizures secondary to SARS-CoV-2
  1. Bilal Athar Jalil1,
  2. Mohsin Ijaz1,
  3. Amir Maqbul Khan1 and
  4. Thomas Glenn Ledbetter2
  1. 1Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Waxahachie, Texas, USA
  2. 2Internal Medicine, Baylor Scott and White Medical Center, Waxahachie, Texas, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Mohsin Ijaz; doctor.mohsin{at}hotmail.com

Abstract

COVID-19 has now emerged from a respiratory illness to a systemic viral illness with multisystem involvement. There is still a lot to learn about this illness as new disease associations with COVID-19 emerge consistently. We present a unique case of a neurological manifestation of a patient with structural brain disease who was COVID-19 positive and developed mental status changes, new-onset seizures and findings suggestive of viral meningitis on lumbar puncture. We also review the literature and discuss our case in the context of the other cases reported. We highlight the value of considering seizures and encephalopathy as one of the presenting features of COVID-19 disease.

  • COVID-19
  • epilepsy and seizures
  • infection (neurology)

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https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2020-240576

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors BAJ and MI designed the case report, wrote the manuscript, reviewed the literature and prepared the final manuscript after corrections. AMK helped review the literature and revised the initial manuscript. TGL reviewed the literature and helped revise the manuscript to its current form.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.