ArticleBMJ case reports2021
Brachial plexopathy as a complication of COVID-19.
Article in BMJ case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Association of Parsonage-Turner syndrome with COVID-19 infection and vaccination: a systematic review.The Journal of international medical research · 2023Pooled it
- Peripheral nervous system involvement associated with COVID-19. A systematic review of literature.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Neuropathic Pain Associated with COVID-19: a Systematic Review of Case Reports.Current pain and headache reports · 2022Pooled it
- Post-acute sequelae SARS-CoV-2 infection and neuropathic pain: a narrative review of the literature and future directions.Pain management · 2025Review
- Upper Extremity Neuropathies Following Severe COVID-19 Infection: A Multicenter Case Series.World neurosurgery · 2023Article
- Brachial Plexus Injury and Musculocutaneous Nerve Palsy During Prone Positioning in a Patient With COVID-19.Cureus · 2022Article
- COVID-19 and the peripheral nervous system. A 2-year review from the pandemic to the vaccine era.Journal of the peripheral nervous system : JPNS · 2022Review
- Parsonage-Turner syndrome following coronavirus disease 2019 immunization with ChAdOx1-S vaccine: a case report and review of the literature.Journal of medical case reports · 2021Review
- Post-COVID symptoms of potential peripheral nervous and muscular origin.Neurology perspectives · 2021Review
- Polyneuropathy following COVID-19 infection: the rehabilitation approach.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Parsonage-Turner Syndrome Following COVID-19 Vaccination: Clinical and Electromyographic Findings in 6 Patients.Case reports in neurologyArticle
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Abstract
COVID-19 affects a wide spectrum of organ systems. We report a 52-year-old man with hypertension and newly diagnosed diabetes mellitus who presented with hypoxic respiratory failure due to COVID-19 and developed severe brachial plexopathy. He was not treated with prone positioning respiratory therapy. Associated with the flaccid, painfully numb left upper extremity was a livedoid, purpuric rash on his left hand and forearm consistent with COVID-19-induced microangiopathy. Neuroimaging and electrophysiological data were consistent with near diffuse left brachial plexitis with selective sparing of axillary, suprascapular and pectoral fascicles. Given his microangiopathic rash, elevated D-dimers and paucifascicular plexopathy, we postulate a patchy microvascular thrombotic plexopathy. Providers should be aware of this significant and potentially under-recognised neurologic complication of COVID-19.
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