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Post-Covid Small Fiber Neuropathy, Implications Of Innate Immunity, And Challenges On Ivig Therapy, Marinos Dalakas
Post-Covid Small Fiber Neuropathy, Implications Of Innate Immunity, And Challenges On Ivig Therapy, Marinos Dalakas
Department of Neurology Faculty Papers
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Severe Stiff-Person Syndrome After Covid: The First Video-Documented Covid Exacerbation And Viral Implications, Marinos C. Dalakas
Severe Stiff-Person Syndrome After Covid: The First Video-Documented Covid Exacerbation And Viral Implications, Marinos C. Dalakas
Department of Neurology Faculty Papers
OBJECTIVES: To describe a patient with mild GAD-positive stiff-leg syndrome (SLS) who developed severely disabling stiff-person syndrome (SPS) 1 week after mild COVID-19 and discuss the impact of viral implications.
METHODS: Video-documented serial clinical observations at baseline, after acute COVID-19, and after IVIG treatments.
RESULTS: A 39-year-old man with left-SLS was stable during a 2-year follow-up with low-dose antispasmodics, working fully and functioning normally, even able to run. One week after mild COVID-19, he started to experience generalized SPS symptomatology that steadily worsened the following 2-3 weeks, becoming unable to walk, requiring a walker, with significant thoracolumbar and bilateral leg …