Neurological symptoms common in COVID-19
But the biggest study to date suggests deaths from such complications are rare
Patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19 often have neurological manifestations, Spanish neurologists say.
Dr Carlos Romero-Sanchez and colleagues from Albacete University Hospital Complex reviewed the neurological manifestations of all 841 COVID-19 patients admitted to hospitals in Albacete in March.
More than half (57%) of the cohort (mean age 66, 56% men) developed some form of neurological symptom, they report in Neurology.
They found the following neurological symptoms tended to be present in the early stages of infection:
