Acute motor axonal neuropathy associated with COVID-19

Abstract

COVID-19, which is considered a global pandemic, is constantly being renewed. Acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) is a rare, axonal variant of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS). This article presents a 69-year-old female patient diagnosed with AMAN due to a COVID-19 infection. Sixty-nine-year-old female patient who started myalgia, headache, cough 14 days ago, and was added diarrhea, fever, loss of smell and taste. Nasopharyngeal SARS-CoV-2 polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was found to be positive. Ten days later, numbness and weakness developed in the distal extremities. As a result of the patient's neurological examination, acute motor axonal neuropathy (AMAN) was diagnosed.

Keywords

• Acute motor axonal neuropathy
• Covid-19
• Guillain-Barré syndrome
• pandemic
• SARS-CoV2

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