Acute Transverse Myelitis (ATM): An Unexpectedly Frequent Complication of COVID-19


Todd Ackerman A Houston Methodist-led team of researchers have found COVID-19 can result in an unexpectedly frequent occurrence of acute transverse myelitis (ATM), a rare but often devastating spinal cord…[...]

Could COVID-19 Be Causing This Rare Spinal Cord Disorder?


Can COVID-19 cause a rare spinal condition called transverse myelitis? Learn what TM is and see the evidence connecting the two conditions. The year 2020 has been one for the…[...]

Covid-19: Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study


BMJ 2024; 384 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmj.q488 (2024) The largest vaccine safety study to date has identified two new, but very rare, side effects associated with covid-19 vaccines—transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The Global Vaccine…[...]

COVID-19 and emerging spinal cord complications: A systematic review


Ritwick Mondal,a Shramana Deb,b Gourav Shome,c Upasana Ganguly,a Durjoy Lahiri,a,d,⁎ and Julián Benito-Leóne,f,g,⁎⁎ Mult Scler Relat Disord. 2021 Jun; 51: 102917.Published online 2021 Mar 21. doi: 10.1016/j.msard.2021.102917 PMCID: PMC7981271 PMID: 33845350 Abstract Background : Spinal cord complications associated with coronavirus infectious disease…[...]

Spinal cord involvement in COVID-19: A review


Ravindra Kumar Garg,1 Vimal Kumar Paliwal,2 and Ankit Gupta2 J Spinal Cord Med. 2023; 46(3): 390–404. Published online 2021 Mar 11. doi: 10.1080/10790268.2021.1888022 PMCID: PMC10114972PMID: 33705268 Abstract Context: Recent literature points towards myelitis, like encephalitis, as a common central…[...]

Coronavirus and the Nervous System


What is SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19?What do we know about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 on the nervous system?What are the immediate (acute) effects of SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 on the brain?What is…[...]