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cord-353628-f6ew980g	Zayet, Souheil	Encephalopathy in patients with COVID‐19: ‘Causality or coincidence?’	2020-05-19		.txt	text/plain	1521	102	51	Since its discovery in December 2019, the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has caused several clinical presentations: mainly respiratory, rarely gastrointestinal, and exceptionally neurological. In addition to the usual symptoms (general, respiratory and otorhinolaryngological) of the infection with SARS-CoV-2, several authors have described neurological manifestations as headache, nausea, and vomiting. These viruses can invade brainstem via a synapse-connected route from the lungs and airways 9 .Considering the high similarity between SARS-CoV-2 and others CoVs 10 , it is still not clearly known whether the potential neuro-invasion of SARS-CoV2 is partially responsible for respiratory failure in patients with COVID-19 9,11,12 . Therefore, in the context of COVID pandemic, it would be reasonable to perform a thoracic CT and a RT-PCR for SARS-CoV-2 in case of encephalopathy with normal lumbar puncture and brain imaging. The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV-2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients The neuroinvasive potential of SARS-CoV-2 may play a role in the respiratory failure of COVID-19 patients	./cache/cord-353628-f6ew980g.txt	./txt/cord-353628-f6ew980g.txt