Abstract #2206

Ultrahigh-Field 7T MRI of the Brain of COVID-19 Patients with Neurological Symptoms: An Initial Study

Shams Rashid^1,2, Oleksandr Khegai¹, Nathalie Jette³, Puneet Belani¹, Puneet Pawha¹, Sera Saju¹, Allison Navis³, Brian Mathew³, Jonathan Goldstein³, Kapil Gururangan³, Qing Hao³, Anuradha Singh³, Jacqueline Becker⁴, Bradley Delman¹, and Priti Balchandani^1,2

¹Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States, ²BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States, ³Neurology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States, ⁴General Internal Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States

Synopsis

Since late 2019, COVID-19 has emerged as a global pandemic that has infected 200 million and killed 5 million. A significant proportion of COVID-19 patients continue to have persistent neurological sequelae after recovery, which are not well understood. In this study, we report our preliminary neuroradiological findings from ultrahigh field MRI at 7T in patients with post-COVID neurological symptoms. We show that numerous heterogeneous abnormalities are present in 7T MR brain images. We expect that these findings may pave the way to explain neurological symptoms in post-COVID patients.

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