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

doi:10.22541/au.164906834.47692407/v1

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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

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.