A physical examination revealed that she had developed paralysis of both her vocal cords.
There was certainly a temporal relationship between the development of covid and these new symptoms.
One known trigger of vocal cord paralysis is neuropathy, or nerve damage.
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But the authors did findisolated casesof paralysis linked to mild covid-19 as well.
Scientists are still trying to understand how covid-19 can cause neuropathy and other lingering complications.
Its possible that nerve damage could arise from the coronavirus directly infecting certain nerve cells, for example.
But the infection might also indirectly trigger neuropathy sometime later by triggering inflammation or blood vessel damage.
In some cases, it may be a mix of all the above.
The current case reveals that vocal cord paralysis may be an additional neuropathic sequela of the virus.
Doctors initially tried and failed to treat the girls paralysis with speech therapy.
So there is a happy ending.
These cases appear to be rare, and covid-19 in general has gotten less dangerous over time.
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