Coronavirus Disease-19 Pneumonia with Facial Nerve Palsy and Olfactory Disturbance

Yoshito Homma; Masashi Watanabe; Koji Inoue; Tomonori Moritaka

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.5014-20

Coronavirus Disease-19 Pneumonia with Facial Nerve Palsy and Olfactory Disturbance

Intern Med. 2020;59(14):1773-1775. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.5014-20. Epub 2020 Jul 15.

Authors

Yoshito Homma¹, Masashi Watanabe², Koji Inoue¹, Tomonori Moritaka¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan.
² Department of Neurology, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan.

Abstract

The novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2, has spread worldwide from China. There are no case reports from Asia of COVID-19 with facial paralysis and olfactory disturbance. We herein report a case of COVID-19 pneumonia in a Japanese woman who showed facial nerve palsy and olfactory disturbance.

Keywords: COVID-19; Kampo; facial nerve palsy; multiple peripheral neuropathies; olfactory disturbance; severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Betacoronavirus
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications*
Facial Nerve / physiopathology
Facial Paralysis / virology*
Female
Humans
Japan
Olfaction Disorders / virology*
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
SARS-CoV-2