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ArticleFrontiers in pediatrics2021

Case Report: Unilateral Sixth Cranial Nerve Palsy Associated With COVID-19 in a 2-year-old Child.

Katrin Knoflach, Eva Holzapfel, Timo Roser, Lieselotte Rudolph, Marco Paolini, Maximilian Muenchhoff, Andreas Osterman, Matthias Griese, Matthias Kappler, Ulrich von Both

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Article in Frontiers in pediatrics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Isolated Sixth Nerve Palsy and COVID-19: A Recurrent Case in a 7-Month-Old Child and Analysis of Reported Cases.Journal of neuro-ophthalmology : the official journal of the North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Katrin KnoflachDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Eva HolzapfelDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Timo RoserDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Lieselotte RudolphDepartment of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Marco PaoliniDepartment of Radiology, University Hospital Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Maximilian MuenchhoffMax von Pettenkofer Institute & Gene Center, Virology, National Reference Center for Retroviruses, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Andreas OstermanMax von Pettenkofer Institute & Gene Center, Virology, National Reference Center for Retroviruses, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Matthias GrieseDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Matthias KapplerDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Ulrich von BothDepartment of Pediatrics, Dr. von Hauner Children's Hospital, University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU), Munich, Germany.
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München · DEGerman Center for Infection Research · DEGerman Center for Lung Research · DE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Children have been described to show neurological symptoms in acute coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and multisystemic inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C). We present a 2-year-old boy's clinical course of unilateral acute sixth nerve palsy in the context of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Onset of the palsy in the otherwise healthy boy occurred seven days after symptoms attributed to acute infection had subsided respectively 3 weeks after onset of respiratory symptoms. SARS-CoV-2 specific IgG was detected in serum as well as in cerebrospinal fluid. The patient showed a prolonged but self-limiting course with a full recovery after three and a half months. This case illustrates in a detailed chronological sequence that sixth cranial nerve involvement may occur as post-infectious, self-limiting complication of pediatric SARS-CoV-2-infection thus expanding the neurological spectrum of symptoms for children with COVID-19. Clinicians should be aware of the possibility of post-infectious sixth nerve palsy related to SARS-CoV-2-infection particularly in view of recent respiratory tract infection or confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2-infection amongst the patient's close contacts.

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anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodiesCOVID-19pediatricSARS-CoV-2sixth cranial nerve palsy

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PMID34976891
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