S. Shierly, I. Sumada, Desie Yuliani, Riki Sukiandra, Chandra Wirawan
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become outbreak in the world since December 2020. The higher incidence and transmission of COVID-19, the higher virulence of the disease. Besides respiratory manifestations, the most common symptoms in COVID-19 are neurological manifestations. The major neurological manifestations in COVID-19 are headache and dizziness. Headache is more common as chief complaint in emergency room and hospitalized patients than dizziness. Therefore, this review aims to outline the characteristics of headache in COVID-19. The conclusion of this review is that the characteristics of headache in COVID-19 are moderate-severe intensity, frontal-temporal region, pulsatile and tightening quality, constant duration and commonly associate with one or more COVID-19 symptoms.
期刊介绍:
ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF NEUROLOGY (Revista Română de Neurologie), the official journal of the Romanian Society of Neurology, was founded in 2001, being a prestigious scientific journal that provides a high quality in terms of scientific content, but also the editorial and graphic aspect, both through an impartial process of selection, evaluation and correction of articles (peer review procedure), as well as providing editorial, graphic and printing conditions at the highest level. In order to increase the scientific standards of the journal, special attention was paid to the improvement of the quality of the published materials. Guidance articles, clinical trials and case studies are structured in several sections: reviews, original articles, case reports, images in neurology. All articles are published entirely in English. A team of reputable medical professionals in the field of neurology is involved in a rigorous peer review process that complies with international ethics and quality rules in the academic world.