{"id":6054,"date":"2020-07-01T08:58:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T07:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/?p=6054"},"modified":"2022-05-19T09:38:21","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T08:38:21","slug":"lessons-of-the-month-1-a-case-of-rhombencephalitis-as-a-rare-complication-of-acute-covid-19-infection-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2020\/07\/01\/lessons-of-the-month-1-a-case-of-rhombencephalitis-as-a-rare-complication-of-acute-covid-19-infection-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Lessons of the month 1: A case of rhombencephalitis as a rare complication of acute COVID-19 infection (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Type of publication:<\/strong><br \/>\nJournal article<\/p>\n<p><strong>Author(s):<\/strong><br \/>\n*Po Fung Wong, *Sam Craik, *Piers Newman, *Annabel Makan, *Koottalai Srinivasan, *Emma Crawford, *Devapriya Dev, *Harmesh Moudgil and *Nawaid Ahmad<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citation:<\/strong><br \/>\nClinical Medicine 2020 Vol 20, No 3, p. 293-294<\/p>\n<p><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><br \/>\nA 40-year-old man developed acute brainstem dysfunction 3 days after hospital admission with symptoms of the novel SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19). Magnetic resonance imaging showed changes in keeping with inflammation of the brainstem and the upper cervical cord, leading to a diagnosis of rhombencephalitis. No other cause explained the patient\u2019s abnormal neurological findings. He was managed conservatively with rapid spontaneous improvement in some of his neurological signs and was discharged home with continued neurology follow up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcpjournals.org\/content\/clinmedicine\/20\/3\/293\">Link to full-text<\/a> [no password required]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Type of publication: Journal article Author(s): *Po Fung Wong, *Sam Craik, *Piers Newman, *Annabel Makan, *Koottalai Srinivasan, *Emma Crawford, *Devapriya Dev, *Harmesh Moudgil and *Nawaid Ahmad Citation: Clinical Medicine 2020 Vol 20, No 3, p. 293-294 Abstract: A 40-year-old man<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/2020\/07\/01\/lessons-of-the-month-1-a-case-of-rhombencephalitis-as-a-rare-complication-of-acute-covid-19-infection-2020\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lessons of the month 1: A case of rhombencephalitis as a rare complication of acute COVID-19 infection (2020)<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[917,1003,946,960],"class_list":["post-6054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-staff-publication","tag-917","tag-bronze-open-access","tag-covid-19","tag-rhombencephalitis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6054"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6977,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6054\/revisions\/6977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.library.sath.nhs.uk\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}