Abstract:
A previously healthy and active middle-aged woman acquired COVID-19 as an occupational exposure with subsequent persistent post-COVID-19 symptoms including headache, dyspnoea on exertion, chest pressure, tachycardia, anosmia, parosmia, persistent myalgia, vertigo, cognitive decline and fatigue. She presented to a tertiary medical centre for further evaluation after 9 months of persistent symptoms and had a largely unremarkable workup with the exception of a persistently elevated monocyte chemoattractant protein 1, blunted cardiovagal response and non-specific scattered areas of low-level hypometabolism at the bilateral frontal, left precuneus, occipital and parietal regions on PET scan.
Source: Grach SL, Ganesh R, Messina SA, Hurt RT. Post-COVID-19 syndrome: persistent neuroimaging changes and symptoms 9 months after initial infection. BMJ Case Rep. 2022 Apr 8;15(4):e248448. doi: 10.1136/bcr-2021-248448. PMID: 35396239. https://casereports.bmj.com/content/15/4/e248448.long (Full text)