COVID-19 presenting with nystagmus

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 15 days after return to Spain upper respiratory symptoms characterized by fever, headache and anosmia that was treated as sinusitis. Three weeks l...

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Published inArchivos de la Sociedad Española de Oftalmología Vol. 96; no. 4; p. 224
Main Authors García-Romo, E, Blanco, R, Nicholls, C, Hernández-Tejero, A, Fernández-de-Arévalo, B
Format Journal Article
LanguageSpanish
Published Spain 01.04.2021
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SARS-CoV-2
Nystagmus
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Summary: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 15 days 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.
ISSN:1989-7286
DOI:10.1016/j.oftal.2020.09.008