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COVID-19: Neurological Considerations in Neonates and Children.

Children (Basel)

September 2020

Departments of Pediatrics, Neurosurgery, and Neurology, The Johns Hopkins University Hospital and School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

The ongoing worldwide pandemic of the novel human coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 and the ensuing disease, COVID-19, has presented enormous and unprecedented challenges for all medical specialists. However, to date, children, especially neonates, have been relatively spared from the devastating consequences of this infection. Neurologic involvement is being increasingly recognized among adults with COVID-19, who can develop sensory deficits in smell and taste, delirium, encephalopathy, headaches, strokes, and peripheral nervous system disorders.

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Rhabdomyolysis in an HIV cohort: epidemiology, causes and outcomes.

BMC Nephrol

July 2017

Department of Medicine/Division of Nephrology, Johns Hopkins University Hospital and School of Medicine, 1830 E. Monument Street - Suite 416, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.

Background: The Literature on rhabdomyolysis in the HIV-positive population is sparse and limited. We aimed to explore the incidence, patient characteristics, etiologies and outcomes of rhabdomyolysis in a cohort of HIV-positive patients identified through the Johns Hopkins HIV clinical registry between June 1992 and April 2014.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of 362 HIV-positive patients with non-cardiac CK elevation ≥1000 IU/L was performed.

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