Autoimmune аnti-NMDA encephalitis associated with the new coronavirus infection COVID-19

Abstract

The article presents a clinical case of a 19-year-old patient with reliable autoimmune anti-NMDA encephalitis, developed after a coronavirus infection, which was accompanied by the signs of catatonia, epilepsy and mutism at the onset of the disease. This case enlarges the statistics of observations of this pathology by including the SARS-COV 2 virus to the list of possible etiological factors. The analysis of the catatonia signs, dominating at the onset of the disease, was carried out.