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Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Neurology

Abstract

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered as one of major global health disasters that massively overwhelmed the health scene in the whole world and can be compared to the scale of 1918 influenza pandemic. The neurological manifestations and the subsequent complications reported with COVID-19, have been increased recently while the pandemic still going ahead. Methods: this study included the patients with neurological complaints presented to neurology outpatient clinic after had been infected with COVID-19 during the first wave of the current pandemic, and have been divided into two groups according to presence or absence of tremor. Their tremor has been evaluated using TETRA score. Results: 39 patients mainly from males out of total 105 patients who were included in our study, presented mainly with tremor of essential tremor character. Conclusion: tremor has been found as a possible post COVID-19 neurological complication without clear evidence for cerebral or cerebellar abnormalities.

DOI

10.21608/zumj.2021.72324.2194

Keywords

tremor, complication, post COVID-19

Authors

First Name

mohammed

Last Name

mahdy

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Affiliation

neurology lecturer, faculty of medicine zagazig university

Email

mdymahdy@yahoo.com

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Orcid

0000-0002-8861-1687

Volume

30

Article Issue

1.1

Related Issue

45249

Issue Date

2024-01-01

Receive Date

2021-04-16

Publish Date

2024-01-01

Page Start

286

Page End

291

Print ISSN

1110-1431

Online ISSN

2357-0717

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https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/article_172017.html

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37

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Original Article

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273

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Journal

Publication Title

Zagazig University Medical Journal

Publication Link

https://zumj.journals.ekb.eg/

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Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.

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30 Dec 2024