SynthesisEuropean journal of radiology2020
Neuroimaging findings of brain MRI and CT in patients with COVID-19: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Topographical Distribution of Neuroanatomical Abnormalities Following COVID-19 Invasion : A Systematic Literature Review.Clinical neuroradiology · 2024Pooled it
- Neuroimaging findings in children with COVID-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2024Pooled it
- Brain MRI findings in neurologically symptomatic COVID-19 patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Intracranial hemorrhages in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review of the literature, regarding six cases in an Amazonian population.Arquivos de neuro-psiquiatria · 2023Pooled it
- Brain MRI findings in severe COVID-19 patients: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Pooled it
- Neuroimaging Findings in Patients with COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Korean journal of radiology · 2021Pooled it
- Neuropsychiatric Involvement in Hospitalized COVID-19 Is Embedded in Multi-Organ Disease: A Retrospective Five-Axis Record-Derived Phenotype Atlas with Renal-Urinary Prognostic Dominance.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Neurological and neurodevelopmental effects of Covid and MIS-C on children.Pediatric research · 2026Review
- Longitudinal Monitoring of Brain Volume Changes After COVID-19 Infection Using Artificial Intelligence-Based MRI Volumetry.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Structured assessment of brain MRI in Covid-19-related neurological disease: an international multicentre study.Neuroradiology · 2025Article
- No brain MRI abnormalities after mild-to-moderate COVID-19: an observational study.Neuroradiology · 2025Observational
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of brain neuroimaging abnormalities in COVID-19 patients and survivors.Psychoradiology · 2025Article
- MRI evidence of gray matter loss in COVID-19 patients with cognitive and olfactory disorders.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2024Article
- Head CT Scans in the Emergency Department during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Use or Overuse?Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- COVID-19-associated cerebral microbleeds in the general population.Brain communications · 2024Article
- Immunoception: the insular cortex perspective.Cellular & molecular immunology · 2023Review
- The Use of Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) to Assess Post-COVID-19 Concentration Disorders in Professional Pilots: An Initial Concept.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Routine Brain MRI Findings on the Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: A Scoping Review.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Abnormalities of brain imaging in COVID-19 patients with neurological symptoms.Current journal of neurology · 2023Article
- Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 Associated Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.Indian pediatrics · 2023Observational
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Abstract
purposeTo comprehensively evaluate the incidences of abnormal neuroimaging findings in patients with COVID-19 via a systematic review and meta-analysis.
methodPubMed-MEDLINE and EMBASE were searched for original articles reporting imaging findings of the brain in adult patients with COVID-19 between January 1, 2020 and October 9, 2020. Abnormal neuroimaging findings were categorized as (1) cerebral microhemorrhages, (2) acute spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage (ICH), (3) acute to subacute infarcts, and (4) encephalitis or encephalopathy. Pooled incidences of neuroimaging findings were assessed using random-effects modeling. Between-study heterogeneity was explored by using the χ
resultsTwenty-one eligible papers, including 2125 patients, were identified. The pooled incidences of cerebral microhemorrhages, acute spontaneous ICH, acute/subacute infarcts, and encephalitis/encephalopathy were 6.9 % (95 % confidence interval [CI], 4.9 %-8.9 %), 5.4 % (95 % CI, 3.1 %-7.6 %), 24.0 % (95 % CI, 16.1 %-31.8 %), and 3.3 % (95 % CI, 1.9 %-4.7 %), respectively. Substantial heterogeneities were noted for all neuroimaging findings (I
conclusionsConsiderable incidences of abnormal neuroimaging findings have been reported in patients with COVID-19. Acute to subacute cerebral infarction was the most prevalent neuroimaging finding.
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