SEVERE ENCEPHALITIS IN AN INFANT WITH COVID-19: A CASE REPORT

Volume 11 , Issue 3 , September 2021 , Pages 401-405

Authors

Aspazija Sofijanova 1 ; Olivera Jordanova 2 ; Khalaf H. Hasan Hiv 2

1 University Children’s Hospital– Skopje, North Macedonia

2 Pediatric Teaching Hospital-Iraq, College of Medicine, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.

DOI logo 10.17656/jsmc.10325

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Abstract

Encephalitis is a severe condition that consists of neurological dysfunction caused by inflammation of the brain
tissue. Etiological factors for the occurrence of this condition include infectious and non-infectious causes.
CASE REPORT
A nine-month-old infant was referred to the hospital in a convulsive state, fever, and disturbed consciousness
to the hospital objectives. From anamnestic information, the infant has been febrile for two days with
protracted vomiting started just before admission at the hospital. At admission, the infant looked toxic with
fever, shortness of breath, weak reaction to painful stimuli, and generalized tonic-clonic convulsions. He was
admitted to the Isolation Unit by the protocol of the hospital. Laboratory investigations were done. Due to the
persistence of the seizure, a CT scan of the brain was performed. It was showing dilated lateral ventricles,
with intraventricular masses and pronounced internal hydrocephalus. The results of SARS-COV-2 from the
infant were positive as well as the grandmother. The infant was intubated immediately and put on mechanical
ventilation SIPPV.
CONCLUSION
SARS-CoV-2 infection may cause severe clinical symptoms, neurological manifestations, and encephalitis in
infants.

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