Meningitis as an Initial Presentation of COVID-19: A Case Report

The common presenting symptoms of fever, fatigue, and mild respiratory symptoms like dry cough, are associated with COVID-19, however, patients can also develop neurological manifestations like headache, anosmia, hyposmia, dysgeusia, meningitis, encephalitis, and acute cerebrovascular accidents duri...

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Published in:Frontiers in public health 2020-09, Vol.8, p.474
Main Authors: Naz, Sidra, Hanif, Muhammad, Haider, Muhammad Adnan, Ali, Mukarram Jamat, Ahmed, Muhammad Umer, Saleem, Sana
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
COVID-19
Dysgeusia
Humans
meningitis
Meningitis - diagnosis
meningo encephalitis
Nervous System Diseases
neurological manifestation
Public Health
SARS-CoV-2
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Summary:The common presenting symptoms of fever, fatigue, and mild respiratory symptoms like dry cough, are associated with COVID-19, however, patients can also develop neurological manifestations like headache, anosmia, hyposmia, dysgeusia, meningitis, encephalitis, and acute cerebrovascular accidents during the disease. Although very rare, these neurological manifestations are sometimes the sole initial presenting complaint of COVID-19. This case report discusses patients where the initial presenting symptoms seemed to be exclusive to meningitis but the later diagnosis was COVID-19. It is important to increase awareness of these rare presentations in physicians and healthcare workers and facilitate early diagnosis and management to prevent the horizontal spread of the disease.
ISSN:2296-2565
2296-2565
DOI:10.3389/fpubh.2020.00474