Medication-resistant acute focal motor seizures in a child with COVID-19 affecting the CNS.

Epileptic Disord

Department of Pediatric Neurology, Golestan Medical, Educational, and Research Center, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences, Ahvaz, Iran

Published: October 2022

A perfectly healthy preschool girl presented with acute repetitive focal aware motor seizures, while her brain MRI showed a lesion in the left posterior cortex. After a number of investigations, her cerebrospinal fluid PCR was positive for SARS-CoV-2. Despite receiving at least four anti-seizure medications at appropriate dosages, the seizures continued, and just after administering intravenous immunoglobulin, her seizures stopped. This dramatic response to intravenous immunoglobulin may indicate a hypothetical inflammatory process in the patient's cortex caused by COVID-19.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9878025PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1684/epd.2022.1461DOI Listing

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