Abstract
SUMMARY: We describe 2 hospitalized patients with confirmed coronavirus 19 (COVID-19) infection in whom brain imaging showed hemorrhagic posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, and we discuss the possible reasons for these findings and their relationship to the infection.
ABBREVIATIONS:
- ACE2
- angiotensin-converting enzyme 2
- COVID-19
- coronavirus 19
- PRES
- posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome
- SARS-CoV-2
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2
- © 2020 by American Journal of Neuroradiology
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