Healio (7/21, Gramigna) reports infection with SARS-CoV-2 “appeared associated with several acute neurological and psychiatric complications,” investigators concluded in a “surveillance study” that “developed an online network of rapid-response case report notification portals across the spectrum of major neuroscience bodies in the U.K. during the pandemic’s exponential phase.” The study revealed that “62% of patients presented with a cerebrovascular event, of whom 74% had an ischaemic stroke, 12% an intracerebral haemorrhage and 1% central nervous system vasculitis.” What’s more, “altered mental status occurred among 31% of patients, of whom 23% had unspecified encephalopathy and 18% encephalitis.” The remainder “(59%) with altered mental status met the clinical case definition for psychiatric diagnoses according to the notifying psychiatrist or neuropsychiatrist, and 92% of these were new diagnoses.” The findings were published online in The Lancet Psychiatry.
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— “COVID-19 infection linked to acute neurological, psychiatric complications, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, July 21, 2020