Case Report: Cerebral Venous Sinus Thrombosis in a Young Child With SARS-CoV-2 Infection: The Italian Experience.

COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 infection cerebral thrombosis pediatric stroke

Journal

Frontiers in neurology
ISSN: 1664-2295
Titre abrégé: Front Neurol
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101546899

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
2022
Historique:
received: 24 01 2022
accepted: 02 03 2022
entrez: 18 4 2022
pubmed: 19 4 2022
medline: 19 4 2022
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in pediatric patients is usually characterized by fever, dry cough, and fatigue, or is asymptomatic and rarely presents with pneumonia. On the other hand, cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) could be a neurological sequela of the prothrombotic state triggered by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) both in adults and children. We present a case of a 15-year-old male child who was obese and had mild neurocognitive impairment. He was admitted to the pediatric emergency department and then diagnosed with CVST during SARS-CoV-2 infection. During the COVID-19 pandemic, in patients presenting with neurological manifestations of CVST (headache, alteration of consciousness, focal deficit, or signs of endocranial hypertension), it is advisable to look for a current or recent infection of SARS-CoV-2, regardless of the presence of respiratory symptoms. In our patient, ongoing SARS-CoV-2 infection represents the only prothrombotic risk factor underlying the neurological disease.

Identifiants

pubmed: 35432183
doi: 10.3389/fneur.2022.861345
pmc: PMC9009147
doi:

Types de publication

Case Reports

Langues

eng

Pagination

861345

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Silvestri, Clemente, Spalice, Febbo, Matera, Accardo, Barbieri, Villani and Midulla.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Paola Silvestri (P)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Anna Clemente (A)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Alberto Spalice (A)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Alessandra Febbo (A)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Luigi Matera (L)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Fabiana Accardo (F)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

Maria Antonietta Barbieri (MA)

Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Alberto Villani (A)

Academic Department of Pediatrics, Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy.

Fabio Midulla (F)

Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.

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