ArticleFrontiers in public health2020
Meningitis as an Initial Presentation of COVID-19: A Case Report.
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- Neurological manifestations of COVID-19: a systematic review and detailed comprehension.The International journal of neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
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- Cerebrospinal fluid in COVID-19: A systematic review of the literature.Journal of the neurological sciences · 2021Pooled it
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- Impact of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Aseptic Meningitis in Children.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2024Article
- Mechanisms, Effects, and Management of Neurological Complications of Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19 (NC-PASC).Biomedicines · 2023Review
- COVID-19-Associated Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy: A Case Report.Iranian journal of child neurology · 2023Article
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- Network Analysis of Neurobehavioral Symptom Patterns in an International Sample of Spanish-Speakers with a History of COVID-19 and Controls.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
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- Relevance of CSF, Serum and Neuroimaging Markers in CNS and PNS Manifestation in COVID-19: A Systematic Review of Case Report and Case Series.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Extrapulmonary onset manifestations of COVID-19.Clinics (Sao Paulo, Brazil) · 2021Review
- Neurological manifestations of COVID-19 infection: an umbrella review.The Egyptian journal of neurology, psychiatry and neurosurgery · 2021Review
- Meningitis during COVID -19 pandemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A call for concern.Clinical epidemiology and global healthArticle
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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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