NEUROLOGICAL IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC: LESSONS & CAUTIONS

Coronavirus disease COVID-19 caused by SARSCoV-2 infection leading the current precarious pandemic which is affecting most of the countries in the world. Clinical portrait of COVID-19 might vary from trivial to debilitating febrile illness. Recent hospital-based studies have recorded the possible neurological symptomatology of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Neurological complications might be of Central Nervous System (CNS) such as dizziness,headache, consciousness impairment, cerebrovascular illness, epilepsy, ataxia and encephalopathy. Peripheral
Nervous System (PNS) illnesses include Guillain-Barré syndrome, hyposmia, hypogeusia, neuralgia. Positive results of Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) and serological assays in patients before and during neurological symptoms infer the possibility of both para and post-infectious association of neurological disorders with SARS-CoV-2.
Elements of SARS-CoV-2 have been spotted in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) too.