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. 2020 Jul 29;12(1):8639.
doi: 10.4081/ni.2020.8639. eCollection 2020 Jul 10.

Neurological symptoms due to Coronavirus disease 2019

Farage Ftiha  1 , Moshe Shalom  2 , Henry Jradeh  1
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Neurological symptoms due to Coronavirus disease 2019

Farage Ftiha et al. Neurol Int. .

Abstract

In this review, we focus on summarizing everything that is known about the neurological effects of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2). It has been shown that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) may result in neuromuscular disorders or damage to nerves outside of the brain and spinal cord, which may lead to weakness, numbness, and pain. Published literature has stated that SARS-COV-1 may infect the central nervous system and due to its similarities to SARS-COV-2, we suspect that SARS-COV-2 has the same potential. We conclude that Covid-19 has neurological manifestations. Further research should be done in this field to understand the full extent of this virus.

Keywords: Covid-19; Neurological effects; SARS-COV-2.

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Conflict of interest: The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.

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