Neurological Complications during Treatment of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome
Journal of Clinical Neurology
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: 227-233, 2017.
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em Inglês
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:
Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has a high mortality rate and pandemic potential. However, the neurological manifestations of MERS have rarely been reported since it first emerged in 2012.METHODS:
We evaluated four patients with laboratory-confirmed MERS coronavirus (CoV) infections who showed neurological complications during MERS treatment. These 4 patients were from a cohort of 23 patients who were treated at a single designated hospital during the 2015 outbreak in the Republic of Korea. The clinical presentations, laboratory findings, and prognoses are described.RESULTS:
Four of the 23 admitted MERS patients reported neurological symptoms during or after MERS-CoV treatment. The potential diagnoses in these four cases included Bickerstaff's encephalitis overlapping with Guillain-Barré syndrome, intensive-care-unit-acquired weakness, or other toxic or infectious neuropathies. Neurological complications did not appear concomitantly with respiratory symptoms, instead being delayed by 2–3 weeks.CONCLUSIONS:
Neuromuscular complications are not rare during MERS treatment, and they may have previously been underdiagnosed. Understanding the neurological manifestations is important in an infectious disease such as MERS, because these symptoms are rarely evaluated thoroughly during treatment, and they may interfere with the prognosis or require treatment modification.
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Assunto principal:
Prognóstico
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Doenças Transmissíveis
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Estudos de Coortes
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Mortalidade
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Infecções por Coronavirus
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Coronavirus
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Doenças do Sistema Nervoso Periférico
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Síndrome de Guillain-Barré
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Diagnóstico
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Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
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Estudo de etiologia
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Estudo de incidência
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Estudo observacional
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Estudo prognóstico
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Fatores de risco
Limite:
Humanos
País/Região como assunto:
Ásia
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Journal of Clinical Neurology
Ano de publicação:
2017
Tipo de documento:
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