Author/Authors :
Karimi, Abdollah Pediatric Infections Research Center - Research Institude for Children’s Health - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Rafiei Tabatabaei, Sedigheh Pediatric Infections Research Center - Research Institude for Children’s Health - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Shariatpanahi, Ghazal School of Medicine - Bahrami Hospital - Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Javadzadeh, Mohsen Pediatric Neurology Research Center - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Armin, Shahnaz Pediatric Infections Research Center - Research Institude for Children’s Health - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran , Yeganeh, Zahra Pediatric Infections Research Center - Research Institude for Children’s Health - Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Abstract :
Abstract
Serious, and sometimes, deadly complications of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the severe acute respiratory syn-drome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are devastating. Whereas most manifestations of COVID-19 are respiratory (fever, dry cough, fa-tigue, pneumonia), it is getting to be progressively recognized that numerous organ functions can be a ected by this disease, and the nervous system is one of them as neurological complications can a ect up to 36% of adult patients. However, the prevalence and pathophysiology of these complications have yet to be fully elucidated in children. Here, we discuss an infant with neurolog-ical symptoms manifested as chronic isolated aseptic meningitis associated with COVID-19, which was unresponsive to ordinary treatments and dramatically responsive to dexamethasone. Immune-mediated reactions may have had a major pathophysiologic role in this case.
