A Case Report of Delirium and Literature Review of Dementia in COVID-19 Process
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2020
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Coronavirus directly infects the nervous system and may cause the course of the existingneurological disease to get worse in those with a chronic neurological disease. People withdementia, which is the most common chronic neurological disease over 65 years old, haveserious difficulties in terms of follow-up and treatment of their diseases in the social isolationprocess. However, due to the risk factors caused by coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), ithas become easier for them to go into delirium. These risk factors can be listed as socialisolation, inactivity, intense stress, as well as direct invasion of the virus to the central nervoussystem, the effect of inflammatory cytokines, the effect of sedative drugs used and the effectthat develops secondary to other accompanying diseases. This paper provides an assessmentregarding the problems experienced by dementia patients in the pandemic process, and theirsolutions, accompanied by a case presentation.
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