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Neurobiol Sleep Circadian Rhythms
. 2020 Nov;9:100057.
doi: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2020.100057. Epub 2020 Sep 12.
COVID-19-associated sleep disorders: A case report
Abeer A Tony[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Effat Ae Tony[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Shazly B Ali[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Azza M Ezzeldin[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Amal A Mahmoud[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Purpose: We reported one patient infected with acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) presented with sleep disorders; insomnia and restless leg syndrome.
Methods: Patient data were obtained from medical records from Al-Raghy Isolation Hospital in Assuit University.
Results: A 49-year-old female patient presented with insomnia and restless leg syndrome associated with anosmia, ageusia. Three days before, she had developed a cough, malaise and athenia, headache, arthralgia, myalgia affecting mainly upper limbs, diarrhea and a fever followed by tachypnea. The naso-oropharyngeal swab test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by qualitative real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assay was positive. The patient was treated with Oseltamivir 75mg and clarithromycin 500 mg (12 hourly for each respectively) for 10 days with paracetamol. Two weeks later, the patient made a complete neurological and respiratory recovery.
Conclusion: Our case highlighted the rare occurrence of restless leg syndrome and insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The era of sleep disorders spectrum in patients with COVID-19 remains to be characterized suggesting a frightening scientific association between COVID-19 and neuropsychiatric illness.
Keywords: COVID-19; Sleep disorders.
. 2020 Nov;9:100057.
doi: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2020.100057. Epub 2020 Sep 12.
COVID-19-associated sleep disorders: A case report
Abeer A Tony[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Effat Ae Tony[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Shazly B Ali[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Azza M Ezzeldin[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Amal A Mahmoud[SUP] 4 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 32954046
- PMCID: PMC7486182
- DOI: 10.1016/j.nbscr.2020.100057
Abstract
Purpose: We reported one patient infected with acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) presented with sleep disorders; insomnia and restless leg syndrome.
Methods: Patient data were obtained from medical records from Al-Raghy Isolation Hospital in Assuit University.
Results: A 49-year-old female patient presented with insomnia and restless leg syndrome associated with anosmia, ageusia. Three days before, she had developed a cough, malaise and athenia, headache, arthralgia, myalgia affecting mainly upper limbs, diarrhea and a fever followed by tachypnea. The naso-oropharyngeal swab test for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by qualitative real-time reverse-transcriptase-polymerase-chain-reaction assay was positive. The patient was treated with Oseltamivir 75mg and clarithromycin 500 mg (12 hourly for each respectively) for 10 days with paracetamol. Two weeks later, the patient made a complete neurological and respiratory recovery.
Conclusion: Our case highlighted the rare occurrence of restless leg syndrome and insomnia during the COVID-19 pandemic. The era of sleep disorders spectrum in patients with COVID-19 remains to be characterized suggesting a frightening scientific association between COVID-19 and neuropsychiatric illness.
Keywords: COVID-19; Sleep disorders.