Meningitis as an Initial Presentation of COVID-19: A Case Report.
Front Public Health
; 8: 474, 2020.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-858811
ABSTRACT
The common presenting symptoms of fever, fatigue, and mild respiratory symptoms like dry cough, are associated with COVID-19, however, patients can also develop neurological manifestations like headache, anosmia, hyposmia, dysgeusia, meningitis, encephalitis, and acute cerebrovascular accidents during the disease. Although very rare, these neurological manifestations are sometimes the sole initial presenting complaint of COVID-19. This case report discusses patients where the initial presenting symptoms seemed to be exclusive to meningitis but the later diagnosis was COVID-19. It is important to increase awareness of these rare presentations in physicians and healthcare workers and facilitate early diagnosis and management to prevent the horizontal spread of the disease.
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International databases
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
COVID-19
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Meningitis
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Nervous System Diseases
Type of study:
Case report
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Diagnostic study
Limits:
Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Front Public Health
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Fpubh.2020.00474
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