An Iranian team has carried out an exhaustive review of the literature to determine the extent and nature of neuromuscular complications linked, directly or indirectly, with the COVID-19 pandemic:
- from an initial extraction of 879 publications in several databases, 133 articles caught her attention,
- they corresponded to 258 individuals, including 171 cases of Guillain-Barré syndrome, 40 of Parsonage-Turner syndrome, 22 of autoimmune myasthenia, 19 of facial paralysis, 5 of small-fiber neuropathy and 1 of Tolosa-Hunt syndrome,
- in two-thirds of cases, these complications occurred within two weeks of vaccination,
- the type of vaccination does not seem to be a factor, and the people concerned were mainly adults.
These studies only partially reflect the real-life situation, as many of these complications are not or no longer reported or published.
