RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Post COVID-19 ischemic stroke in a 15-Year-old patient
JF Neurosciences Journal
JO Neurosciences (Riyadh)
FD Prince Sultan Military Medical City
SP 62
OP 65
DO 10.17712/nsj.2023.1.20220064
VO 28
IS 1
A1 Salem AlKandari
A1 Lata Prasad
A1 Abeer M. Al Shabrawy
A1 Salwa A. Gelbaya
YR 2023
UL http://nsj.org.sa/content/28/1/62.abstract
AB Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been reported in the literature to be associated with a higher risk of stroke in young individuals with no previous risk factors. We present here one such case of a 15-year-old girl with posterior circulation ischemic stroke resulting in dense right hemiplegia and cerebellar incoordination. The patient tested positive for COVID-19 infection without displaying any symptoms of active COVID-19 infection at the time of the stroke. An MRI brain scan showed acute infarcts in the pons and left cerebellar hemisphere, and a CT angiogram of the cerebrovascular system showed occluded left vertebral and basilar arteries.The most salient feature of this case is COVID-19 infection manifesting clinically as cerebrovascular thrombosis in an otherwise healthy young girl with no pre-existing comorbidities and no laboratory findings of coagulopathy except for mildly elevated D-dimer.