Acute myelitis and SARS-CoV-2 infection. A new etiology of myelitis?

The etiological agent of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19), SARS-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2), emerged in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread worldwide leading the World Health Organization (WHO) to recognize it not only as a pandemic but also as an important thread to public health. Beyond respiratory symptoms, new neurological manifestations are being identified such as headache, ageusia, anosmia, encephalitis or acute cerebrovascular disease. Here we report the case of an acute transverse myelitis (TM) in a patient with SARS-CoV-2 infection detected by the nasopharyngeal swab technique but not in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis. Anti-herpes simplex virus (HSV) 1 and varicella-zoster IgM antibodies were not detected in serum samples and spinal and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) showed no abnormal findings. This case remarks that COVID-19 nervous system damage could be caused by immune-mediated mechanisms.

Celulitis atípica asociada a bacteriemia por Campylobacter jejuni en un paciente con hipogammaglobulinemia ligada al cromosoma X / Atypical cellulitis associated with bacteremia from Campylobacter jejuni in a patient with X-linked hypogammaglobulinemia

Un paciente varón de 18 años de edad, con antecedentes de agammaglobulinemia ligada al cromosoma X o de Bruton, presentó simultáneamente lesiones atípicas de celulitis, en ambas piernas y brazo izquierdo, y bacteriemia por Campylobacter jejuni, sin sintomatología intestinal previa.Tanto C. jejuni como los bacilos del género Helicobacter o Flexispira deben ser considerados causa de septicemias/bacteriemias, celulitis, abscesos, uveítis, artritis y osteomielitis en pacientes con cualquier tipo de inmunodeficiencia, incluida la agammaglobulinemia ligada al X (AU)

Hemorragia intraocular tras la administración de estreptocinasa intravenosa / Intraocular hemorrhage after intravenous streptokinase

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