Figure 5
Twenty-six-year-old male with no prior co-morbidities; admitted with severe RT-PCR proved SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia, (A) as shown on the chest radiogram. This patient, who was on mechanical ventilation, went into cardiac arrest. Brain MRI was performed 4 days post arrest due to low GCS (= 6), revealed global hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. (B) Axial FLAIR image, at the level of the BG, showed decreased signal intensity in the thalami, while (C) corresponding DWI image showed lack of hyperintensity in both thalami, in addition to the caudate and putamen nuclei, findings that represent pseudo normalization. (D) Also, corresponding ADC map showed hyperintensity in the locations cited in (B). (E) Reconstructed maximum intensity projection magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) image shows no large vessel occlusion.
