Bells Palsy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a 2-Year-Old Child
| Autor: | Dalya Chefitz, Birk Olson, Abdolreza Esfahanizadeh, Priyanka Uprety, Mary Carayannopoulos, Serina Bsales, Sunanda Gaur |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty Palsy biology business.industry Clinical Neurology 030208 emergency & critical care medicine Disease medicine.disease Diagnosis of exclusion Serology Reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Cerebrospinal fluid Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Bell's palsy biology.protein medicine Neurology (clinical) Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Antibody business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Pediatric Neurology |
| ISSN: | 1875-9041 1304-2580 |
| DOI: | 10.1055/s-0040-1722210 |
| Popis: | Bell's palsy (BP) is an acute, unilateral facial nerve palsy (FNP) that is a diagnosis of exclusion, sometimes associated with infectious causes. In this article, we described a previously healthy 2-year-old child patient who presented with left-sided facial droop, positive severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), positive SARS-CoV-2 immunoglobulin (Ig)-G antibody, and negative cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) SARS-CoV-2 (PCR and serology). This is the second reported pediatric case of BP in the setting of SARS-CoV-2, and the first in a child without comorbidities. Due to the positive antibody test, we presented the idea that SARS-CoV-2 could be a triggering factor of the FNP, possibly occurring in the later stages of disease. |
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