Stroke in a child with SARS-CoV-2 infection: A case report.

Stroke in a child with SARS-CoV-2 infection: A case report.

Borhan Moradveisi, Masomeh Abedini, Shirin Behzadi, Awat Karimi, Bkhtiar Khosravi

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Some patients with COVID-19 show widely neurological manifestations including stroke. We report a child who was hospitalized due to seizures and was later diagnosed with COVID-19. Acute infarction was seen in the right putamen, globus pallidus, and the posterior part of the insula. A small focal dilatation within M1 segment of the left middle cerebral artery (MCA) was also observed. According to the present case report, COVID-19 infection may contribute to the occurrence and development of ischemic stroke.

2021

coronavirus, covid-19, SARS-CoV-2, Stroke, pediatric patients

10.1016/j.ensci.2021.100345

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