Symmetrical polyneuropathy in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Abstract

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus that began in late December 2019 was announced as a pandemic by the World Health Organization as the number of cases is increasing exponentially throughout the globe. We presented a patient with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia developing symmetric polyneuropathy. To our knowledge, extrapulmonary clinical presentations of 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have rarely been reported. This case highlights the possible association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and nervous system involvement.

Keywords

• COVID-19
• SARS-CoV-2
• Pneumonia
• Nervous system
• Polyneuropathy