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Opsoclonus-Myoclonus- Ataxia Syndrome (OMAS) Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Post-Infectious Neurological Complication with Benign Prognosis Cover

Opsoclonus-Myoclonus- Ataxia Syndrome (OMAS) Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection: Post-Infectious Neurological Complication with Benign Prognosis

Open Access
|Feb 2021

Abstract

The novel coronavirus SARS‐CoV‐2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2) is the cause of the COVID‐19 pandemic [5]. SARS-Cov-2 demonstrates partial resemblance to SARS-CoV and MERS-CoV in phylogenetic analysis, clinical manifestations, and pathological findings [6, 7]. Reports emerging from China have described ataxia as a neurological symptom of the SARS‐CoV‐2 infection [5]. Opsoclonus consists of back-to-back multidirectional conjugate saccades without an inter-saccadic interval [8]. Myoclonus is defined as a sudden, brief, “shock‐like”, nonepileptic involuntary movement [9], which has been described as a symptom of SARS-CoV-2 infection [10]. Opsoclonus-Myoclonus-Ataxia syndrome (OMAS) associated COVID-19 infection has been reported recently [11, 12].

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/tohm.580 | Journal eISSN: 2160-8288
Language: English
Submitted on: Oct 28, 2020
Accepted on: Jan 21, 2021
Published on: Feb 10, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year

© 2021 Enrique Urrea-Mendoza, Kimberly Okafor, Senthuran Ravindran, John Absher, Varun Chaubal, Fredy J. Revilla, published by Ubiquity Press
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