COVID-19 presenting with nystagmus.

E García-Romo, R Blanco, C Nicholls, A Hernández-Tejero, B Fernández-de-Arévalo

Archivos de la Sociedad Espanola de Oftalmologia 2021 Apr

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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 15days 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. Copyright © 2020 Sociedad Española de Oftalmología. Publicado por Elsevier España, S.L.U. All rights reserved.

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E García-Romo, R Blanco, C Nicholls, A Hernández-Tejero, B Fernández-de-Arévalo. COVID-19 presenting with nystagmus. Archivos de la Sociedad Espanola de Oftalmologia. 2021 Apr;96(4):224-226