Brain MRI Findings in Patients in the Intensive Care Unit with COVID-19 Infection

Sedat G Kandemirli1, Lerzan Dogan1, Zeynep T Sarikaya1

  • 1From the Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospital and Clinics, Iowa City, Iowa (S.G.K.); Departments of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (L.D., Z.T.S., H.S.D.K., O.M., I.K.O., S.R., D.E.G., A.K.J., A.I., I.O.A.), Neurology (N.A.), and Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology (R.Z.), Acibadem Altunizade Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Departments of Radiology (S.K.) and Neurology (D.K.), Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey; Departments of Anesthesiology and Reanimation (C.A., V.E., M.Y.E., N.C., I.O.A.) and Neurology (Y.K., B.C.Y.), Acibadem Fulya Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Departments of Radiology (D.Y.) and Anesthesiology and Reanimation (F.T., M.Y., S.U., T.L., I.O.A.), Acibadem Taksim Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Acibadem Kozyatagi Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey (M.S.Y., S.S.D., E.G., I. Dikmen, I.O.A.); Departments of Radiology (E.O.) and Anesthesiology and Reanimation (B.G., L.T.), Acibadem University Atakent International Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Departments of Radiology (E.K.) and Anesthesiology and Reanimation (I. Koyluoglu, I. Demirel, A.A., I. Kesimci, S.B.D., I.O.A.), Acibadem Maslak Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey; Division of Neuroradiology, Departments of Radiology (S.A., B.K., O.K., N.K.) and Neurology (M.T.), Cerrahapasa Medical Faculty, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, Istanbul, Turkey; Department of Radiology, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey (A.D.); and Center for Neuroradiological Applications and Research, Acibadem Mehmet Ali Aydinlar University, Istanbul, Turkey (A.D.).

Radiology
|May 9, 2020
PubMed
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