Please tell us about your experience with the current COVID-19 Pandemic in your hospital? As in most hospitals, the current pandemic has had a significant impact on how the hospital is operated. The Department of Neurology was organised according to… Continue Reading

Please tell us about your experience with the current COVID-19 pandemic in your hospital With over 27.000 positively tested patients in the Netherlands, all hospitals had to make major adaptations to their general practice. Non-urgent care has been put on… Continue Reading

Italy has been the first European country to be violently hit by the ongoing pandemic of COVID-19. Whilst devastating, luckily the measures undertaken- although considered draconian by some- avoided greater spread across the whole nation. The areas where the first… Continue Reading

In this article recently published in Neurology, Gutiérrez-Ortiz et al., report two patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 who presented with Miller Fisher syndrome and polyneuritis cranialis, respectively. The first patient was a 50-year-old man who presented with anosmia, ageusia, right internuclear… Continue Reading

It has been already reported that COVID-19 infection may predispose patients to thrombotic disease, both in the venous and arterial circulations, due to excessive inflammation, platelet activation, endothelial dysfunction, and stasis. In addition, many patients receiving antithrombotic therapy for thrombotic… Continue Reading

In this report, the authors examined five patients who had Guillain–Barré syndrome after the onset of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infection. Four of the patients had a positive nasopharyngeal swab for SARS-CoV-2 at the onset of the neurologic syndrome, while… Continue Reading

In this study, recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, the authors report the neurologic features in an observational series of 58 of 64 consecutive patients admitted to two intensive care units (ICUs) in Strasbourg, France, because of… Continue Reading

Anna Bersano and Natan Bornstein on behalf of EAN Stroke Management Panel According to the WHO, the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has already reached pandemic proportion, affecting at present more than 2.034.000 patients worldwide. Although the majority of… Continue Reading

The ongoing COVID-19 outbreak raises new management challenges, which lack an evidence-based answer to date. The management group of the EAN Scientific Panel for Autonomic Nervous System (ANS) Disorders discusses below some management aspects relevant to patients with autonomic disorders.… Continue Reading

COVID-19 AND NEUROLOGY In this useful consensus paper, the current clinical guidelines and research progress on the management of COVID-19 are summarized, emphasizing on its neurological manifestations.  The aim of consensus was to help neurologists to understand the occurrence, development… Continue Reading

COVID-19 AND NEUROLOGY During the COVID-19 outbreak, frontline healthcare workers were mandated to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) while caring for suspected or confirmed COVID-19 patients, which involved the donning of face masks, protective eyewear, gowns, surgical gloves and the… Continue Reading

COVID-19 AND NEUROLOGY Because most patients with MG are on immunosuppressive or immunomodulatory therapies and may also have respiratory muscle weakness, there is a theoretical concern that MG/LEMS patients may be at higher risk of contracting the infection or experiencing… Continue Reading

COVID-19 AND NEUROLOGY The aim of this multicenter study was to investigate and characterize the occurrence of olfactory and gustatory disorders in patients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 infection. A total of 417 mild-to-moderate COVID-19 patients were included in the study; in… Continue Reading

COVID-19 TREATMENT In this report, the authors describe outcomes in a cohort of patients hospitalized for severe Covid-19 who were treated with remdesivir on a compassionate-use basis. Remdesivir is a prodrug of a nucleotide analogue that is intracellularly metabolized to… Continue Reading

COVID-19 TREATMENT In this nice narrative review just published in JAMA, the authors summarize current evidence regarding major proposed treatments, repurposed or experimental, for COVID-19 and provides a summary of current clinical experience and treatment guidance for this novel epidemic… Continue Reading