Acute Encephalopathy with Biphasic Seizures and Late Reduced Diffusion following SARS-CoV-2 Infection—A Rare Case Report

Abstract

Acute encephalopathy with biphasic seizures and late reduced diffusion (AESD) is a clinicoradiological syndrome first recognized during the influenza pandemic in Japanese population in the late twentieth century.1 In this article, we presented a rare case report of AESD in a young child due to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection (SARS-CoV-2) who presented with febrile status epilepticus, persistent encephalopathy, and had recurrence of seizures on day 4 of illness with characteristic magnetic resonance imaging findings and a relatively fair outcome