Is COVID-19 the culprit for critical illness-associated cerebral
microbleeds and encephalopathies or a marker of severe disease: a case
series
- Abeer Safan
, - Mohamad Khatib,
- Mohammad Alwraidat,
- Dr. Yahia Imam,
- Mohammad Altermanini,
- SALAH ALMUGHALLES,
- Anood Al-Assaf,
- Mariam Olish,
- Moustafa Elshafei,
- Abdulqadir Nashwan
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Abstract
Critical illness-associated cerebral microbleeds and leukoencephalopathy
related to COVID-19 infection are increasingly being recognized in the
literature. We report seven cases of COVID-19 with microbleeds in the
juxtacortical white matter and corpus callosum and one case of
leukoencephalopathy.