Nosocomial COVID-19 infection mortality following surgery for severe progressive cervical myelopathy: a case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

We present the unique case of a nosocomial COVID infection acquired after urgent surgical intervention for cervical myelopathy, as well as the sequelae that followed in the postoperative period.

Case presentation

An initially COVID-negative patient underwent urgent surgical intervention for cervical myelopathy with significant neurological deterioration. She underwent an uncomplicated staged anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with corpectomy, as well as a subsequent posterior cervical instrumented fusion within the same hospitalization. The patient would refuse to adhere to standard COVID precautions during her admission and demonstrated rapid decompensation following her particularly uneventful surgeries, ultimately leading to her expiration. A laboratory

SUBMITTER: Zhang AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8603333 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature