A 44-Year-Old Hispanic Man with Loss of Taste and Bilateral Facial Weakness Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Bell’s Palsy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin

Misbahuddin Khaja; Gabriella P. Roa Gomez; Yaneidy Santana; Nolberto Hernandez; Asim Haider; Jose Luis Perez Lara; Rene Elkin

doi:10.12659/AJCR.927956

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A 44-Year-Old Hispanic Man with Loss of Taste and Bilateral Facial Weakness Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Bell’s Palsy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin

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Misbahuddin Khaja ^B* , Gabriella P. Roa Gomez ^A , Yaneidy Santana ^A , Nolberto Hernandez ^A , Asim Haider ^A , Jose Luis Perez Lara ^A , Rene Elkin ^A

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.927956

Am J Case Rep 2020; 21:e927956

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Table 1. Causes of Bell’s palsy.

Viral infections	Herpes simplex, herpes zoster, cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus, adenovirus, rubella virus, mumps, influenza B, coxsackievirus, and HIV
Tick-borne disease	Lyme disease
Immune-mediated polyneuropathy	Guillain-Barré syndrome
Autoimmune condition	Sjogren’s syndrome
Metabolic	Diabetes mellitus
Inflammatory disease	Sarcoidosis
Cerebrovascular condition	Stroke
Tumors	Parotid gland, internal acoustic canal, cerebellopontine angle, or temporal bone lesions
Rare condition	Melkersson-Rosenthal syndrome

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A 44-Year-Old Hispanic Man with Loss of Taste and Bilateral Facial Weakness Diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome and Bell’s Palsy Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection Treated with Intravenous Immunoglobulin

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