Neurological symptoms are increasingly recognized as potential manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection, even in patients with mild or absent respiratory symptoms. These can range from relatively benign conditions such as the loss of taste and smell, to devastating, life-threatening sequelae of cerebral strokes and hemorrhages.
A new study from investigators at the UC San Francisco Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, published in Academic Radiology, comprehensively reviewed the current literature on neuroradiological findings in SARS-CoV-2 patients to identify latent patterns and trends that could be useful in guiding clinical management of these patients. Because of the relatively small number of large-scale studies on this topic and their over-representation of ICU patients with severe respiratory disease, the authors made a point of including case reports and…
