ABSTRACT
Emerging evidence suggests that patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are at risk of thromboembolic complications, including ischemic strokes. We present a case illustrating the value of CT perfusion to identify acute small subcortical infarcts in a patient with COVID-19 admitted to an intensive care unit for bilateral pneumonia and pulmonary embolism presenting with sudden right limb weakness.
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Betacoronavirus , Coronavirus Infections/cerebrospinal fluid , Encephalitis/cerebrospinal fluid , Interleukin-1beta/cerebrospinal fluid , Interleukin-6/cerebrospinal fluid , Peptidyl-Dipeptidase A/cerebrospinal fluid , Pneumonia, Viral/cerebrospinal fluid , Adult , Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2 , Betacoronavirus/isolation & purification , Biomarkers/cerebrospinal fluid , COVID-19 , Coronavirus Infections/complications , Coronavirus Infections/diagnosis , Encephalitis/diagnosis , Encephalitis/etiology , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Pandemics , Pneumonia, Viral/complications , Pneumonia, Viral/diagnosis , SARS-CoV-2ABSTRACT
Emerging evidence suggests that patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are at risk of thromboembolic complications, including ischemic strokes. We present a case illustrating the value of CT perfusion to identify acute small subcortical infarcts in a patient with COVID-19 admitted to an intensive care unit for bilateral pneumonia and pulmonary embolism presenting with sudden right limb weakness.