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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr;96(4):224-226.
doi: 10.1016/j.oftal.2020.09.008. Epub 2020 Nov 6.

COVID-19 presenting with nystagmus

[Article in English, Spanish]
E García-Romo  1 , R Blanco  2 , C Nicholls  3 , A Hernández-Tejero  1 , B Fernández-de-Arévalo  1
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Case Reports

COVID-19 presenting with nystagmus

[Article in English, Spanish]
E García-Romo et al. Arch Soc Esp Oftalmol (Engl Ed). 2021 Apr.

Abstract
in English, Spanish

This case reports a 20-year-old female patient who was in northern Italy when the state of emergency was declared on the 31st of January 2020, developing 15days after return to Spain upper respiratory symptoms characterized by fever, headache and anosmia that was treated as sinusitis. Three weeks later presented with dizziness and an intermittent horizontal nystagmus with rotatory component. Otorhinolaryngology and neurological examination including MRI were normal. COVID-19 IgG antibodies where positive. In the context of the ongoing pandemic, and associating the symptoms with positive IgG antibodies, we can consider the infection of SARS-CoV-2 as a probable cause of the acquired nystagmus.

Presentamos el caso de una mujer de 20 años que se encontraba en el norte de Italia cuando se decretó el estado de alarma el 31 de enero 2020 volviendo a España. A los 15 días de su regreso presentó un cuadro respiratorio de vías altas con fiebre, cefalea y anosmia que fue tratado como una sinusitis y a las tres semanas comenzó con sensación de mareo y un nistagmus horizontal en ambos ojos con componente rotatorio. La exploración otorrinolaringológica y neurológica con resonancia magnética fueron normales. Las pruebas serológicas para Covid-19 dieron un resultado positivo para anticuerpos IgG. En el contexto actual de pandemia, los síntomas y signos en esta paciente asociados a un test serológico IgG positivo nos permite considerar como causa del nistagmus adquirido la infección por SARS-CoV-2.

Keywords: Nistagmo; Nystagmus; SARS-CoV-2.

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