id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-304898-he57l0y7 Belghmaidi, Sarah Third Cranial Nerve Palsy Presenting with Unilateral Diplopia and Strabismus in a 24-Year-Old Woman with COVID-19 2020-10-15 .txt text/plain 1666 104 49 Patient: Female, 24-year-old Final Diagnosis: Third cranial nerve palsy in a women presenting COVID-19 Symptoms: Ophthalmoplegia Medication:— Clinical Procedure: — Specialty: Ophthalmology OBJECTIVE: Rare disease BACKGROUND: Coronavirus disease (COVID 19) is caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and is the causative agent of a serious disease that is of great global public health concern. We describe the case of a patient with an incomplete palsy of the left third cranial nerve sparing the pupils in the context of SARS-CoV-2 virus infection. CASE REPORT: We report the case of a 24-year-old woman with confirmed COVID-19, which presented with acute onset of diplopia and strabismus of the left eye that occurred 3 days after the start of general symptoms. A previously healthy 24-year-old woman, with no medical history (such as diabetes, high blood pressure, dyslipidemia, vasculitis, smoking, obesity, familial neurological disease, or other risk factors for ischemic ophthalmoplegia), presented to the Emergency Department for acute onset of strabismus and diplopia of the left eye, evolving for 3 days. ./cache/cord-304898-he57l0y7.txt ./txt/cord-304898-he57l0y7.txt