Background: The COVID-19 pandemic can be considered as one of major global health disasters that massively overwhelmed the health scene in the whole world and can be compared to the scale of 1918 influenza pandemic. The neurological manifestations and the subsequent complications reported with COVID-19, have been increased recently while the pandemic still going ahead. Methods: this study included the patients with neurological complaints presented to neurology outpatient clinic after had been infected with COVID-19 during the first wave of the current pandemic, and have been divided into two groups according to presence or absence of tremor. Their tremor has been evaluated using TETRA score. Results: 39 patients mainly from males out of total 105 patients who were included in our study, presented mainly with tremor of essential tremor character. Conclusion: tremor has been found as a possible post COVID-19 neurological complication without clear evidence for cerebral or cerebellar abnormalities.
mahdy, M. (2024). Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.. Zagazig University Medical Journal, 30(1.1), 286-291. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2021.72324.2194
MLA
mohammed mahdy. "Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.", Zagazig University Medical Journal, 30, 1.1, 2024, 286-291. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2021.72324.2194
HARVARD
mahdy, M. (2024). 'Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.', Zagazig University Medical Journal, 30(1.1), pp. 286-291. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2021.72324.2194
VANCOUVER
mahdy, M. Post COVID-19 Postural tremor, a possible neurological complication.. Zagazig University Medical Journal, 2024; 30(1.1): 286-291. doi: 10.21608/zumj.2021.72324.2194
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