COVID-19 and abducens nerve palsy in a 9-year-old girl—case report

BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Although many reports have detailed a range of neurological symptoms in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients, studies of neuro-ophthalmological manifestations are st...

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Autores principales: Capponi, Martina, Cinicola, Bianca Laura, Brindisi, Giulia, Guido, Cristiana Alessia, Torcé, Maria Cristina, Zicari, Anna Maria, Spalice, Alberto
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01298-3
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author Capponi, Martina
Cinicola, Bianca Laura
Brindisi, Giulia
Guido, Cristiana Alessia
Torcé, Maria Cristina
Zicari, Anna Maria
Spalice, Alberto
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description BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Although many reports have detailed a range of neurological symptoms in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients, studies of neuro-ophthalmological manifestations are still scarce. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 9-year-old girl with abducens nerve palsy after COVID-19 with no evidence of other neurological disease on neuroimaging. At 2-month follow-up clinical conditions were improved. CONCLUSIONS: The palsy may have occurred due to a possible post-infectious immune-mediated mechanism underlying the neuropathy, as opposed to direct viral infiltration. Despite being rare, this complication must be taken into account.
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spelling pubmed-92061302022-06-19 COVID-19 and abducens nerve palsy in a 9-year-old girl—case report Capponi, Martina Cinicola, Bianca Laura Brindisi, Giulia Guido, Cristiana Alessia Torcé, Maria Cristina Zicari, Anna Maria Spalice, Alberto Ital J Pediatr Case Report BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a disease caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Although many reports have detailed a range of neurological symptoms in SARS-CoV-2-infected patients, studies of neuro-ophthalmological manifestations are still scarce. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 9-year-old girl with abducens nerve palsy after COVID-19 with no evidence of other neurological disease on neuroimaging. At 2-month follow-up clinical conditions were improved. CONCLUSIONS: The palsy may have occurred due to a possible post-infectious immune-mediated mechanism underlying the neuropathy, as opposed to direct viral infiltration. Despite being rare, this complication must be taken into account. BioMed Central 2022-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9206130/ /pubmed/35717391 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01298-3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Brindisi, Giulia
Guido, Cristiana Alessia
Torcé, Maria Cristina
Zicari, Anna Maria
Spalice, Alberto
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title_full COVID-19 and abducens nerve palsy in a 9-year-old girl—case report
title_fullStr COVID-19 and abducens nerve palsy in a 9-year-old girl—case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9206130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35717391
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-022-01298-3
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