Bilateral Facial Paralysis in an Atypical Clinical Onset of COVID-Associated Guillain-Barre Syndrome

Ahmad Taftaf • Claudine A. Vera Cruz • Haytham Al-Qasmi • Mohammed Al-QasmiPublished: June 30, 2024, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.63498 Peer-Reviewed Abstract Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has been associated with a diverse range of extrapulmonary manifestations since its global outbreak in 2019.…[...]

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Covid-19: Two rare vaccine side effects detected in large global study

BMJ 2024; 384 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/ bmj.q488 (2024) The largest vaccine safety study to date has identified two new, but very rare, side effects associated with covid-19 vaccines—transverse myelitis and acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. The Global Vaccine…[...]

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Alteration of the blood-brain barrier by COVID-19 and its implication in the permeation of drugs into the brain

Héctor Hernández-Parra1,2 Octavio Daniel Reyes-Hernández3 Gabriela Figueroa-González4 Manuel González-Del Carmen5 Maykel González-Torres6 Sheila I. Peña-Corona2 Benjamín Florán7 Hernán Cortés8* Gerardo Leyva-Gómez2* https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36998270/ Diverse neurological symptoms have been reported in patients with SARS-CoV-2 disease (COVID-19), including stroke, ataxia, meningitis,…[...]

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COVID-19 and possible links with Parkinson’s disease and parkinsonism: from bench to bedside

David Sulzer, Angelo Antonini, Valentina Leta, Anna Nordvig, Richard J. Smeyne, James E. Goldman, Osama Al-Dalahmah, Luigi Zecca, Alessandro Sette, Luigi Bubacco, Olimpia Meucci, Elena Moro, Ashley S. Harms, Yaqian Xu, Stanley Fahn & K. Ray Chaudhuri  npj Parkinson's Disease volume 6, Article number: 18 (2020) Cite this article Abstract This Viewpoint…[...]

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