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Case Reports
. 2021 Feb;43(2):357-359.
doi: 10.1016/j.braindev.2020.08.017. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

Bell's palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Christos Theophanous  1 , Jonathan D Santoro  2 , Reem Itani  3
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Bell's palsy in a pediatric patient with hyper IgM syndrome and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)

Christos Theophanous et al. Brain Dev. 2021 Feb.

Abstract

Bell's palsy is an acute facial paralysis with known association to viral infections. We describe a medically complex 6-year-old male with hyper IgM syndrome who presented with unilateral facial droop and positive SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR. This is the first reported pediatric case of Bell's palsy in the setting of SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Keywords: Bell’s Palsy; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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