The Lancet Neurology
Fecha de publicación: October 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S1474-4422(20)30305-7
Autores: Mikhal E Cohen, Roni Eichel, Bettina Steiner-Birmanns, Amir Janah, Maxim Ioshpa, Rachel Bar-Shalom, et al.
Background: Parkinson’s disease or parkinsonism have been described after infections by viruses, such as influenza A, Epstein-Barr virus, varicella zoster, hepatitis C virus, HIV, Japanese encephalitis virus, or West Nile virus. We report a patient with probable Parkinson’s disease, who was diagnosed after severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection.