COVID-19 Complicated with Peripheral Facial Paralysis

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) is a highly contagious disease that first began in Wuhan province of China and rapidly spread all over the world in a short time, affecting millions of people. At the beginning, COVID-19 has been reported as a severe respiratory tract disease. During this period, typical signs and symptoms were those expected from a respiratory virus such as fever, cough and dyspnea, as a result of the rapid spread of the virus, affecting more people and increasing number of studies in the literature, it has been noticed that the symptoms can manifest in many ways. In addition to malaise, fatigue, diffuse muscle-joint pain, neurological symptoms such as dizziness, loss of taste and smell were also reported. Commonly reported neurological symptoms such as loss of taste and smell in COVID-19, suggest that cranial nerves may also be affected. In this context, COVID-19 can cause various neurological symptoms including peripheral facial paralysis. In this report, we aimed to present a young male patient with peripheral facial paralysis who was diagnosed with COVID-19, and to make a contribution to neurological symptoms caused by COVID-19.