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Brain MR Spectroscopic Findings in 3 Consecutive Patients with COVID-19: Preliminary Observations

Rapalino, O.; Weerasekera, A.; Moum, S. J.; Eikermann-Haerter, K.; Edlow, B. L.; Fischer, D.; Torrado-Carvajal, A.; Loggia, M. L.; Mukerji, S. S.; Schaefer, P. W.; Gonzalez, R. G.; Lev, M. H.; Ratai, E. -M.

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF NEURORADIOLOGY
2021
VL / 42 - BP / 37 - EP / 41
abstract
Brain multivoxel MR spectroscopic imaging was performed in 3 consecutive patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). These included 1 patient with COVID-19-associated necrotizing leukoencephalopathy, another patient who had a recent pulseless electrical activity cardiac arrest with subtle white matter changes, and a patient without frank encephalopathy or a recent severe hypoxic episode. The MR spectroscopic imaging findings were compared with those of 2 patients with white matter pathology not related to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and a healthy control subject. The NAA reduction, choline elevation, and glutamate/glutamine elevation found in the patient with COVID-19-associated necrotizing leukoencephalopathy and, to a lesser degree, the patient with COVID-19 postcardiac arrest, follow a similar pattern as seen with the patient with delayed posthypoxic leukoencephalopathy. Lactate elevation was most pronounced in the patient with COVID-19 necrotizing leukoencephalopathy.

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