Acute myelitis after SARS-CoV-2 infection: a case report.

Kang Zhao; Jucun Huang; Dan Dai; Yuwei Feng; Liming Liu; Shuke Nie

A 66-year-old male was admitted to hospital for fever and fatigue of 2 days in Wuhan, China. He had no contact with patients with COVID-19. He developed fever without obvious cause on February 8, 2020, the highest body temperature was 39 ℃, with fatigue, without cough, asthma and dyspnea. He went to the outpatient clinic of Wuhan local hospital and was treated with oral moxifloxacin hydrochloride and oseltamivir for 5 days. On February 13, he performed a chest CT in the local lung hospital and found patchy changes in both lungs (Figure1.A&B). The test of novel coronavirus RNA nasopharyngeal swab was positive, then he was diagnosed with mild Covid-19. He was admitted to Wuhan Cabin Hospital and was treated in individual isolation. After a high fever (40 ℃ ) at night, he developed weakness of both lower limbs with urinary and bowel incontinence, culminating in flaccid lower extremity paralysis. His condition aggravated rapidly, and he was transferred to intensive care unit for critical care and treatment. Vital signs: Oxygen . CC-BY-NC 4.0 International license It is made available under a author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.