Protracted COVID-19 during Treatment of Facial Palsy

Neurologic manifestations are increasingly reported as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues. This is a report of a COVID-19 patient with Bell's palsy. Case Summary. A 52-year-old man with fever and malaise was tested positive for COVID-19. After a week, he developed right-...

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Autores principales: Hasibi, Mehrdad, Seyed Ahadi, Maral, Abdollahi, Hamed, Jafari, Mehrdad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8205590/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34211790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5569841
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description Neurologic manifestations are increasingly reported as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues. This is a report of a COVID-19 patient with Bell's palsy. Case Summary. A 52-year-old man with fever and malaise was tested positive for COVID-19. After a week, he developed right-sided peripheral facial palsy and was treated with corticosteroids in conjunction with antiviral treatment which resulted in complete recovery. Discussion. Concomitant treatment of corticosteroids and antiviral treatment can decrease morbidity in patients with COVID-19-related Bell's palsy.
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spelling pubmed-82055902021-06-30 Protracted COVID-19 during Treatment of Facial Palsy Hasibi, Mehrdad Seyed Ahadi, Maral Abdollahi, Hamed Jafari, Mehrdad Case Rep Neurol Med Case Report Neurologic manifestations are increasingly reported as the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues. This is a report of a COVID-19 patient with Bell's palsy. Case Summary. A 52-year-old man with fever and malaise was tested positive for COVID-19. After a week, he developed right-sided peripheral facial palsy and was treated with corticosteroids in conjunction with antiviral treatment which resulted in complete recovery. Discussion. Concomitant treatment of corticosteroids and antiviral treatment can decrease morbidity in patients with COVID-19-related Bell's palsy. Hindawi 2021-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8205590/ /pubmed/34211790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/5569841 Text en Copyright © 2021 Mehrdad Hasibi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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