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Comment
. 2020 Sep:79:257-258.
doi: 10.1016/j.jocn.2020.06.025. Epub 2020 Jul 4.

Letter to the editor. Concerning the article entitled ''Guillain Barre syndrome associated with COVID-19 infection: A case report"

Narges Karimi  1 , Zahra Sedaghat  2
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Comment

Letter to the editor. Concerning the article entitled ''Guillain Barre syndrome associated with COVID-19 infection: A case report"

Narges Karimi et al. J Clin Neurosci. 2020 Sep.

Abstract

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    A novel coronavirus (COVID-19) was detected in Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China.

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    The most symptoms of disease have reported fever, cough, dyspnea, myalgia, headache, and diarrhea.

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    We followed up GBS symptoms in one infected patient with COVID-19.

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    The limbs weakness of patient completely improved after treatment with IVIG.

Keywords: COVID-19; Guillain Barre syndrome; Neuropathy; Novel coronavirus.

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Conflict of interest statement

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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