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      <JournalTitle>Frontiers in Medical Case Reports</JournalTitle>
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      <Volume-Issue>Volume 3; Issue 5</Volume-Issue>
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      <IssueTopic>Multidisciplinary</IssueTopic>
      <IssueLanguage>English</IssueLanguage>
      <Season>(Sep-Oct, 2022)</Season>
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        <Year>-0001</Year>
        <Month>11</Month>
        <Day>30</Day>
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      <ArticleType>Medical Case Reports</ArticleType>
      <ArticleTitle>Acute Spinal Cord Dysfunction Following COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report</ArticleTitle>
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      <ArticleLanguage>English</ArticleLanguage>
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      <FirstPage>1</FirstPage>
      <LastPage>7</LastPage>
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          <FirstName>Luca</FirstName>
          <LastName>Braglia</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>N</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Gabriele</FirstName>
          <LastName>Vandelli</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Angioletta</FirstName>
          <LastName>Manenti</LastName>
          <AuthorLanguage>English</AuthorLanguage>
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          <CorrespondingAuthor>Y</CorrespondingAuthor>
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          <FirstName>Stefano</FirstName>
          <LastName>Sacchi</LastName>
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      <Abstract>Here, we describe a 44-year-old female that developed abrupt symptomatology, including lower-limb paralysis with sensory involvement at the T12 level, two weeks after the resolution of COVID-19 bilateral pneumonia. Based on the neurological symptoms and the neurophysiological investigations, a clinical diagnosis of thoracic spinal cord dysfunction was made. However, all the complementary tests performed showed normal results. In particular, repeated MRIs showed no alterations; the cerebrospinal fluid analysis showed normal results: the CT scan of the brain was normal and the CT scan of the abdominal and thoracic aorta showed a normal size and course. Cases of spinal cord involvement have rarely been described, in which the MRIs never revealed cord signaling changes. We hypothesize that a small vessel spinal cord stroke might explain the pathogenesis and the absence of changes detectable on an MRI along with the patient__ampersandsign#39;s modest recovery during the long follow up. However, it cannot be excluded that the severe clinical course of SARS-CoV-2 infection, may suggest other different etiologies that could be related to prolonged hospitalization.</Abstract>
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      <Keywords>COVID-19,Spinal Cord Dysfunction,Lower-limb Paresis</Keywords>
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        <Abstract>https://www.jmedicalcasereports.org/ubijournal-v1copy/journals/abstract.php?article_id=14062&amp;title=Acute Spinal Cord Dysfunction Following COVID-19 Infection: A Case Report</Abstract>
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