ArticleCureus2021
Bilateral Facial Nerve Palsy and COVID-19 Vaccination: Causation or Coincidence?
Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- COVID-19 vaccination and Guillain-Barré syndrome: analyses using the National Immunoglobulin Database.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2023Article
- A review of the potential neurological adverse events of COVID-19 vaccines.Acta neurologica Belgica · 2023Review
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- Development of facial palsy following COVID-19 vaccination: A systematic review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Review
- COVID-19 Vaccination and The Eye.American journal of ophthalmology · 2022Review
- Bell's palsy as a possible complication of mRNA-1273 (Moderna) vaccine against COVID-19.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2022Article
- Left Bell's palsy following the first dose of mRNA-1273 SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: A case report.Clinical imaging · 2022Article
- Do we miss rare adverse events induced by COVID-19 vaccination?Frontiers in medicine · 2022Review
- Hearing Loss, Tinnitus, and Dizziness and their Relation with Covid-19: what is the Current Evidence?International archives of otorhinolaryngology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Bell's palsy is a mononeuropathy of the facial nerve that typically causes unilateral facial paralysis. The incidence of unilateral Bell's palsy is not uncommon, but sequential or simultaneous bilateral Bell's palsy is exceedingly rare. While unilateral Bell's palsy is oftentimes idiopathic, bilateral Bell's palsy is almost exclusively explained by an identifiable trigger. In pre-clinical trials, Bell's palsy cases were recorded at higher rates in the vaccine cohort than the placebo cohort. Herein, we present a case of isolated sequential bilateral Bell's palsy that after an extensive workup, proved to be idiopathic. Notably, in the setting of a recent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccine and absence of identifiable etiology, our case highlights a potential correlation of the COVID-19 vaccine and bilateral Bell's palsy.
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