Acute abducens nerve palsy in a patient with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19)

We present a case of an abducens nerve palsy in a previously healthy young man in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Magnetic resonance imaging obtained 5 weeks after the onset of diplopia demonstrated an atrophic left lateral rectus muscle, which was hyperintense on T2 weighting, consistent with...

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Autores principales: Falcone, Michelle M., Rong, Andrew J., Salazar, Humberto, Redick, D. Wade, Falcone, Steven, Cavuoto, Kara M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311910/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32592761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.06.001
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author Falcone, Michelle M.
Rong, Andrew J.
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Falcone, Steven
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description We present a case of an abducens nerve palsy in a previously healthy young man in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Magnetic resonance imaging obtained 5 weeks after the onset of diplopia demonstrated an atrophic left lateral rectus muscle, which was hyperintense on T2 weighting, consistent with denervation. Although the mechanism of the nerve palsy remains unclear, it is suspected to be related to his viral illness, because the patient had no preexisting vascular risk factors or evidence of other neurologic disease on neuroimaging. Cranial nerve palsies may represent part of the neurologic spectrum of COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-73119102020-06-24 Acute abducens nerve palsy in a patient with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Falcone, Michelle M. Rong, Andrew J. Salazar, Humberto Redick, D. Wade Falcone, Steven Cavuoto, Kara M. J AAPOS Covid-19 We present a case of an abducens nerve palsy in a previously healthy young man in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. Magnetic resonance imaging obtained 5 weeks after the onset of diplopia demonstrated an atrophic left lateral rectus muscle, which was hyperintense on T2 weighting, consistent with denervation. Although the mechanism of the nerve palsy remains unclear, it is suspected to be related to his viral illness, because the patient had no preexisting vascular risk factors or evidence of other neurologic disease on neuroimaging. Cranial nerve palsies may represent part of the neurologic spectrum of COVID-19. American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2020-08 2020-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7311910/ /pubmed/32592761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.06.001 Text en © 2020 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7311910/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jaapos.2020.06.001
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