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Frequency and burden of neurological manifestations upon hospital presentation in COVID-19 patients: Findings from a large Brazilian cohort

2022; Elsevier BV; Volume: 443; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jns.2022.120485

1878-5883

Milena Soriano Marcolino, Fernando Anschau, Luciane Kopittke, Magda Carvalho Pires, Izabela Guimarães Barbosa, Daniella Nunes Pereira, Lucas Emanuel Ferreira Ramos, Luís Fernando Israel Assunção, André Soares de Moura Costa, Matheus Carvalho Alves Nogueira, Helena Duani, Karina Paula Medeiros Prado Martins, Leila Beltrami Moreira, Carla Thaís Cândida Alves da Silva, Neimy Ramos de Oliveira, Patrícia Klarmann Ziegelmann, Milton Henriques Guimarães Júnior, Mauro Oscar Soares de Souza Lima, Rúbia Laura Oliveira Aguiar, Luanna Silva Monteiro Menezes, Talita Fischer Oliveira, Maíra Dias Souza, Bárbara Lopes Farace, Christiane Corrêa Rodrigues Cimini, Amanda de Oliveira Maurílio, Silvana Mangeon Mereilles Guimarães, Silvia Ferreira Araújo, Guilherme Fagundes Nascimento, Daniel Vitório Silveira, Karen Brasil Ruschel, Thainara Conceição de Oliveira, Alexandre Vargas Schwarzbold, Luiz Antônio Nasi, Maiara Anschau Floriani, Veridiana Baldon dos Santos, Carolina Marques Ramos, Joice Coutinho de Alvarenga, Ana Luiza Bahia Alves Scotton, Euler Roberto Fernandes Manenti, Gabriela Petry Crestani, Joanna d’Arc Lyra Batista, Daniela Ponce, Juliana Machado-Rugolo, Adriana Falangola Benjamin Bezerra, Petrônio José de Lima Martelli, Heloísa Reniers Vianna, Luís César de Castro, Cássia Regina Gotler Medeiros, Giovanna Grünewald Vietta, Elayne Crestani Pereira, José Miguel Chatkin, Mariana Frizzo de Godoy, Polianna Delfino-Pereira, Antônio Lúcio Teixeira,

COVID-19 and Mental Health

Abstract Background Scientific data regarding the prevalence of COVID-19 neurological manifestations and prognosis in Latin America countries is still lacking. Therefore, the study aims to understand neurological manifestations of SARS-CoV 2 infection and outcomes in the Brazilian population. Methods This study is part of the Brazilian COVID-19 Registry, a multicentric cohort, including data from 37 hospitals. For the present analysis, patients were grouped according to the presence of reported symptoms (i.e., headache; anosmia and ageusia; syncope and dizziness) vs. clinically-diagnosed neurological manifestations (clinically-defined neurological syndrome: neurological signs or diagnoses captured by clinical evaluation) and matched with patients without neurological manifestations by age, sex, number of comorbidities, hospital of admission, and whether or not patients had underlying neurological disease. Results From 6,635 hospitalized patients with COVID-19, 30.8% presented reported neurological manifestations, 10.3% were diagnosed with a neurological syndrome and 60.1% did not show any neurological manifestations. In patients with reported symptoms, the most common ones were headache (20.7%), ageusia (11.1%) and anosmia (8.0%). In patients with neurological syndromes, acute encephalopathy was the most common diagnosis (9.7%). In the matched analysis, patients with neurological syndromes presented more cases of septic shock (17.0 vs. 13.0%, p = 0.045), intensive care unit admission (45.3 vs. 38.9%, p = 0.023), and mortality (38.7 vs. 32.6%, p = 0.026; and 39.2 vs. 30.3%, p < 0.001) when compared to controls. Conclusion COVID-19 in-hospital patients with clinically defined neurological syndromes presented a higher incidence of septic shock, ICU admission and death when compared to controls.