Coexistence Of Corpus Callosum Splenium Infarct And COVID-19 Pneumonia: A Case Report

Year 2024, Volume: 4 Issue: 1, 26 - 29, 22.04.2024

Burcu Karpuz Seren , Orbay Tutku Seren , Hüseyin Tuğrul Atasoy

https://doi.org/10.58961/hmj.1431101

Abstract

In this article, we presented our case who developed CC splenium infarction who had COVID-19 pneumonia at the same time.
A 45-year-old male patient with a positive COVID-19 PCR test was admitted to the emergency department with complaints of confusion and loss of direction. He didn’t have a chronic disease, a history of smoking and alcohol abuse. Confusion was found on mental examination. The Splenium of the CC was hyperintense on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and hypointense on Apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) sequence.
There are a few case reports in the literature about young patients who do not have known or unexplained cardiovascular risk factors and who have had COVID-19-related pneumonia. We thought that COVID-19 pneumonia might be a triggering factor since infarction of the splenium region of the corpus callosum is rare, the patient is in the young age patient group, and there is no other comorbidity.

Keywords

Cerebrovascular Disease, COVID-19 Pneumonia, Corpus Callosum, Corpus Callosum Splenium Infarction

Corpus Callosum Splenium Enfarktının COVID-19 Pnömonisi ile Birlikteliği: Bir Olgu Sunumu

Abstract

Bu yazıda, COVID-19 pnömonisi olan ve aynı zamanda Corpus Callosum (CC) Splenium enfarktüsü gelişen olgumuzu sunduk.
COVID-19 PCR testi pozitif olan 45 yaş erkek hasta kafa karışıklığı ve yön kaybı şikayetleri ile acil servise başvurdu. Kronik bir hastalığı, sigara ve alkol kullanım öyküsü yoktu. Bilinç muayenesinde karışıklık saptandı. CC'nin Splenium difüzyon ağırlıklı manyetik rezonans görüntülemede (MRI) hiperintens ve ADC sekansında hipointensti. serebrovasküler etiyolojisi araştırıldı, herhangi bir patoloji saptanamadı.
Literatürde bilinen veya açıklanamayan kardiyovasküler risk faktörleri olmayan ve COVID-19 ile ilişkili pnömoni geçirmiş genç hastalarla ilgili birkaç vaka sunumu bulunmaktadır. Bu hastada Corpus Callosumun splenium bölgesinde enfarktüsün nadir görülmesi, hastanın genç yaş hasta grubunda olması ve başka bir komorbidite olmaması nedeniyle COVID-19 pnömonisinin tetikleyici bir faktör olabileceğini düşündük.

Keywords

COVID-19 Pnömonisi, Serebrovasküler Hastalık, Corpus Callosum Splenium Enfarktüsü, Corpus Callosum

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