Peripheral nervous system damage in coronavirus infection: research results

Abstract

SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has the ability to affect the nervous system and cause various neurologic disorders, both in the acute period and after recovery or during the development of post-coital syndrome. Among the nosologic forms of peripheral nervous system lesions after a new coronavirus infection are mononeuropathies, multineuropathies, multiple neuropathies, and noninflammatory polyneuropathies. Both the debut of neurological disease with varying degrees of severity of symptoms, including disabling, and progression of the existing pathology, requiring a change in treatment tactics, are possible. The article presents the results of a prospective study evaluating the effect of COVID-19 on the peripheral nervous system. Recommendations for physicians on the management of patients with peripheral nervous system damage against the background of coronavirus infection developed on the basis of the obtained information are presented.