Neurological Presentations of COVID-19: Characteristic Features in a Case Series of Hospitalized Patients from Abu Dhabi, UAE

Table 1

The table describes the neurology presentation category with the number of patients, age, comorbidity, duration of hospitalization, requirement for artificial ventilation, and disease outcome.

Neurology category		Number (out of 33)	Median age	Comorbidity	Mean (average) duration of hospitalization	Ventilation support	Disease outcome
Encephalopathy	Altered behaviour	3	63	1 DM	8 (6-12)	2	All died
				1 DM, HTN, IHD
	Altered sensorium	7	50	1 HTN	10.2 (1-30)	1	6 recovered, 1 died
				1 DM, HTN, Dys
				1 Dys
				1 DM, HTN
Myalgia/myositis		7	48	2 DM	6.8 (2-15)	6	All died
Stroke		8	57.5	4 DM	17.2 (5-38)	2	3 died, 3 had residual weakness, 2 recovered
				4 HTN
				2 IHD
				1 CHF
Seizures		4	29	1 Rasmussen syndrome	10.25 (3-23)	1	All recovered
Peripheral & cranial nerve injury		4	59	1 DM	13.5 (4-29)	None	3 recovered, 1 died
				1 IHD, Parkinson’s disease

DM: diabetes mellitus; HTN: hypertension; IHD: ischemic heart disease; CHF: congestive heart failure; Dys: dyslipidemia.