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  • Patient: Male, 23-year-old Final Diagnosis: Cytokine release syndrome • disseminated intravascular coagulation • multiple organ failure Symptoms: Auditory hallucinations • fever • headache • restlessness • suicidal thoughts Medication: — Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Infectious Diseases • Neurology OBJECTIVE: Unusual clinical course BACKGROUND: Cytotoxic lesions of the corpus callosum (CLOCC) is a rare clinical and radiological syndrome that has been associated with various infectious etiologies. CLOCC are among the recently described neurological associations with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). We report a case of CLOCC in a man with SARS-CoV-2 infection who presented with auditory hallucinations and rapidly developed systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS). CASE REPORT: A 23-year-old man with no past medical and psychiatric history presented with auditory hallucinations, restlessness, and suicidal ideations. A nasopharyngeal swab specimen tested using real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) assay was positive for SARS-CoV-2. A brain MRI revealed an isolated oval-shaped lesion in the splenium of the corpus callosum, with hyperintense signal on diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) and hypointense on apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps, suggestive of CLOCC. After a dramatic hospital course associated with multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) and severe intra-abdominal and cerebral bleeding, he developed cardiac arrest and died on hospital day 15. CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the need for increased vigilance for the atypical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection. In addition, it suggests that CLOCC can be considered as a differential diagnosis by clinicians in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection who present with unexplained neurological and neuropsychiatric symptoms, leading to poor outcome.
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  • 10.12659/ajcr.928798
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  • Am_J_Case_Rep
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  • cc-by-nc-nd
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  • document_parses/pdf_json/0bac4a03bd7d80dc5fa4b10f83c5e3a7c1f415f5.json
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  • document_parses/pmc_json/PMC7749447.xml.json
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  • 33315854.0
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  • Medline; PMC
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  • A 23-Year-Old Man with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Who Presented with Auditory Hallucinations and Imaging Findings of Cytotoxic Lesions of the Corpus Callosum (CLOCC)
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  • 2020-12-14

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