Yamini Mandelia, Katherine Moravec, Kathleen Kinney Bryant, William A.B. Dalzell
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Abstract
Abstract COVID-19 pandemic has affected the pediatric and adult populations in different ways. Although adults experience more respiratory disease, pediatric population has been struck by multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children. There have been multiple case reports of Bell’s palsy associated with acute COVID-19 infection. We present the first known case of unilateral facial palsy after multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children in a pediatric patient.
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Medical professionals seeking an infectious diseases journal with true clinical value need look no further than Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. Here, clinicians can get full coverage consolidated into one resource, with pertinent new developments presented in a way that makes them easy to apply to patient care. From HIV care delivery to Hepatitis C virus testing…travel and tropical medicine…and infection surveillance, prevention, and control, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice delivers the vital information needed to optimally prevent and treat infectious diseases. Indexed/abstracted in: EMBASE, SCOPUS, Current Contents/Clinical Medicine