Symmetrical polyneuropathy in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that began in late December 2019 was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization as the number of cases is increasing exponentially throughout the globe. We presented a patient with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia developing symmetric polyneuropathy....

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Autores principales: Ghiasvand, Fereshteh, Ghadimi, Maryam, Ghadimi, Fatemeh, Safarpour, Samin, Hosseinzadeh, Roghieh, SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7255269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32514394
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00815
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Sumario:The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that began in late December 2019 was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization as the number of cases is increasing exponentially throughout the globe. We presented a patient with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia developing symmetric polyneuropathy. To our knowledge, extrapulmonary clinical presentations of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have rarely been reported. This case highlights the possible association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and nervous system involvement.

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