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## Background and purpose: Middle east respiratory syndrome (mers) has a high mortality rate and pandemic potential. however, the neurological manifestations of mers have rarely been reported since it first emerged in 2012. ## Methods: We evaluated four patients with laboratory-confirmed mers coronavirus (cov) infections who showed neurological complications during mers treatment. these 4 patients were from a cohort of 23 patients who were treated at a single designated hospital during the 2015 outbreak in the republic of korea. the clinical presentations, laboratory findings, and prognoses are described. ## Results: Four of the 23 admitted mers patients reported neurological symptoms during or after mers-cov treatment. the potential diagnoses in these four cases included bickerstaff's encephalitis overlapping with guillain-barré syndrome, intensive-care-unit-acquired weakness, or other toxic or infectious neuropathies. neurological complications did not appear concomitantly with respiratory symptoms, instead being delayed by 2-3 weeks. ## Conclusions: Neuromuscular complications are not rare during mers treatment, and they may have previously been underdiagnosed. understanding the

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Author

Jee-Eun Kim; Jae-Hyeok Heo; Hye-ok Kim; Sook-hee Song; Sang-Soon Park; Tai-Hwan Park; Jin-Young Ahn; Min-Ky Kim; Jae-Phil Choi

Publisher

Korean Neurological Association

Published

2017

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)