31 October 2020 : Case report
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
Rare disease
Misbahuddin Khaja1BDEF*, Gabriella P. Roa Gomez1ABDEF, Yaneidy Santana1ADEF, Nolberto Hernandez2ABDEF, Asim Haider2ADEF, Jose Luis Perez Lara1ABDEF, Rene Elkin3ABDFDOI: 10.12659/AJCR.927956
Am J Case Rep 2020; 21:e927956
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 |