Neurovascular and perfusion imaging findings in coronavirus disease 2019: Case report and literature review
Matheus Dorigatti Soldatelli, Lázaro Faria do Amaral, Viviane Cordeiro Veiga, Salomón Soriano Ordinola Rojas, Samir Sari Omar, Victor Hugo Rocha Marussi
Abstract
Central nervous system involvement in severe acute respiratory syndrome caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has increasingly been recognised in the literature, and possible mechanisms of neuroinvasion, neurotropism and neurovirulence have been described. Neurological signs have been described in 84% of COVID-19 intensive care unit patients, and haemostatic abnormalities in such patients may play an important role, with a broad spectrum of neuroimaging findings. This report describes the magnetic resonance imaging neurovascular findings in an acutely ill patient with COVID-19, including perfusion abnormalities depicted in the arterial spin labelling technique.