De Novo Status Epilepticus in patients with COVID‐19
Open Access
- 14 May 2020
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology
- Vol. 7 (7), 1240-1244
- https://doi.org/10.1002/acn3.51071
Abstract
Neurological complications are increasingly recognized with SARS CoV‐2, the causative pathogen for COVID‐19. We present a single‐center retrospective case series reporting the EEG and outcome of de novo status epilepticus (SE) in two African‐American women with laboratory‐confirmed SARS CoV‐2 virus. SE was the initial presentation in one asymptomatic individual. Patient 2 had COVID‐19 pneumonia, and fluctuating mental status that raised the suspicion of subclinical SE. The patient with older age and higher comorbidities failed to recover from the viral illness that has no definitive treatment.This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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