Focal Cerebral Arteriopathy in a Pediatric Patient with COVID-19

Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Mirzaee; Fabrício Guimarães Gonçalves; Mahyar Mohammadifard; Shirin Mojgan Tavakoli; Arastoo Vossough

doi:10.1148/radiol.2020202197

Focal Cerebral Arteriopathy in a Pediatric Patient with COVID-19

Radiology. 2020 Nov;297(2):E274-E275. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2020202197. Epub 2020 Jun 2.

Authors

Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Mirzaee^#¹, Fabrício Guimarães Gonçalves^#¹, Mahyar Mohammadifard¹, Shirin Mojgan Tavakoli¹, Arastoo Vossough¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Neurology, Division of Neurology, Razi Hospital of Birjand, Birjand, Iran (S.M.M.M., S.M.T.); Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa (F.G.G., A.V.); and Department of Radiology, Division of Neuroradiology, Imam Reza Hospital of Birjand, Birjand, Iran (M.M.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

We present a case of focal cerebral arteriopathy and ischemic stroke in a pediatric patient with coronavirus disease 2019 who presented with seizure, right hemiparesis, and dysarthria with positive findings for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 from nasopharyngeal swab and cerebral spinal fluid.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
Brain Ischemia / diagnostic imaging
Brain Ischemia / etiology
COVID-19
Cerebral Arterial Diseases / etiology*
Cerebral Arteries / diagnostic imaging
Child
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging / methods*
Male
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
SARS-CoV-2
Stroke / diagnostic imaging
Stroke / etiology