IDCases Symmetrical Polyneuropathy in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

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IDCases


. 2020 May 15;21:e00815.
doi: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00815. eCollection 2020.
Symmetrical Polyneuropathy in Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)


Fereshteh Ghiasvand ¹ , Maryam Ghadimi ² , Fatemeh Ghadimi ³ , Samin Safarpour ¹ , Roghieh Hosseinzadeh ¹ , SeyedAhmad SeyedAlinaghi ³



Affiliations

• PMID: 32514394
• PMCID: PMC7255269
• DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2020.e00815

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; Nervous system; Pneumonia; Polyneuropathy; SARS-CoV-2.