Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Bell’s palsy is an acute facial paralysis with known association to viral infections. We describe a medically complex 6-year-old male with hyper IgM syndrome who presented with unilateral facial droop and positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. This is the first reported pediatric case of Bell’s palsy in the se...

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Autores principales: Theophanous, Christos, Santoro, Jonathan D., Itani, Reem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Japanese Society of Child Neurology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7472970/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32950319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2020.08.017
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description Bell’s palsy is an acute facial paralysis with known association to viral infections. We describe a medically complex 6-year-old male with hyper IgM syndrome who presented with unilateral facial droop and positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. This is the first reported pediatric case of Bell’s palsy in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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spelling pubmed-74729702020-09-08 Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Theophanous, Christos Santoro, Jonathan D. Itani, Reem Brain Dev Case Report Bell’s palsy is an acute facial paralysis with known association to viral infections. We describe a medically complex 6-year-old male with hyper IgM syndrome who presented with unilateral facial droop and positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. This is the first reported pediatric case of Bell’s palsy in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The Japanese Society of Child Neurology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2021-02 2020-09-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7472970/ /pubmed/32950319 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2020.08.017 Text en © 2020 The Japanese Society of Child Neurology. Published by Elsevier B.V. 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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Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title_full Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title_fullStr Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title_full_unstemmed Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title_short Bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
title_sort bell’s palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper igm syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (sars-cov-2)
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32950319
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.braindev.2020.08.017
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