{"doi":"10.3389/fneur.2020.00805","title":"Inpatient Neurology Consultations During the Onset of the SARS-CoV-2 New York City Pandemic: A Single Center Case Series","abstract":"Objective: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) primarily causes respiratory illness. However, neurological sequelae from novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) can occur. Patients with neurological conditions may be at higher risk of developing worsening of their underlying problem. Here we document our initial experiences as neurologic consultants at a single center quaternary hospital at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: This was a retrospective case series of adult patients diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 who required neurological evaluation in the form of a consultation or primary neurological care from March 13, 2020 to April 1, 2020. Results: Thirty-three patients (ages 17-88 years with COVID-19 infection who required neurological or admission to a primary neurology team were included in this study. The encountered neurological problems associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection were encephalopathy (12 patients, 36.4%), seizure (9 patients, 27.2%), stroke (5 patients, 15.2%), recrudescence of prior neurological disease symptoms (4 patients, 12.1%), and neuromuscular (3 patients, 9.1%). The majority of patients who required evaluation by neurology had elevated inflammatory markers. Twenty-one (63.6%) patients were discharged from the hospital and 12 (36.4%) died from COVID-19 related complications. Conclusion: This small case series of our initial encounters with COVID-19 infection describes a range of neurological complications which are similar to presentations seen with other critical illnesses. COVID-19 infection did not change the overall management of neurological problems.","journal":"Frontiers in Neurology","year":2020,"id":104074,"datarank":0.0,"base_score":0.0,"endowment":0.0,"self_citation_contribution":0.0,"citation_network_contribution":0.0,"self_endowment_contribution":0.0,"citer_contribution":0.0,"corpus_percentile":null,"corpus_rank":null,"citation_count":24,"citer_count":0,"citers_with_citation_signal":0,"citers_with_endowment":0,"datacite_reuse_total":0,"is_dataset":false,"is_dataset_confidence":0.9627,"is_data_producer":false,"deposit_databanks":null,"is_oa":true,"file_count":0,"downloads":0,"has_version_chain":false,"published_date":"2020-01-01","fair_score":null,"fair_percentile":null,"algorithm_id":"datarank_citation_only_1hop_v6","ranking_scope":"data_only","authors":[{"id":464330,"name":"Samantha Epstein","orcid":"0009-0001-0426-2732","position":1,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":506237,"name":"Hannah Roeder","orcid":"0000-0002-8175-7608","position":2,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":506238,"name":"Andrew J. Michalak","orcid":"0000-0002-7401-8364","position":3,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":506239,"name":"Steven D. Shapiro","orcid":"0000-0002-8392-3219","position":4,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":266057,"name":"Amelia K. Boehme","orcid":"0000-0001-7408-1075","position":5,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":248879,"name":"Tommy J. Wilson","orcid":null,"position":6,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":506240,"name":"Juan Carlos Durán","orcid":"0000-0002-8837-2540","position":7,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":367640,"name":"Jennifer Bain","orcid":"0000-0002-6642-8902","position":8,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":74994,"name":"Joshua Z. Willey","orcid":"0000-0001-5180-2044","position":9,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":250723,"name":"Kiran T. Thakur","orcid":"0000-0003-0050-0323","position":10,"is_corresponding":false},{"id":506236,"name":"Sara Radmard","orcid":"0000-0002-9275-5341","position":0,"is_corresponding":true}],"reference_count":24,"raw_metadata":null,"created_at":"2026-07-18T22:43:22.755723Z","pmid":"32754113","pmcid":null,"fwci":null,"citation_percentile":null,"influential_citations":0,"oa_status":null,"license":null,"views":0,"total_file_size_bytes":0,"version_count":0,"fair_f":null,"fair_a":null,"fair_i":null,"fair_r":null,"fair_zscore":null,"fair_rationale":null,"fair_model":null,"fair_agent_version":null,"fair_fulltext_source":null,"fair_has_llm":null,"fair_computed_at":null,"clinical_trials":[],"software_tools":[],"db_accessions":[],"linked_datasets":[],"topics":[]}