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. 2021 Sep 17;360:577719. doi: 10.1016/j.jneuroim.2021.577719

Table 1.

Description of 4 cases of COVID-19.

Demographics Co-morbidities Vaccine Onset of symptoms in relation to vaccination Other vaccines Type of IDP Clinical presentation CSF NCS
Age: 51
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
NSTEMI*2020 AZa 2 weeks post 1st dose Influenza vaccine

8 weeks post influenza vaccination
GBSa Nadir: at 2 weeks
-lower back pain
-Bifacial weakness
-Dysphagia
-Diplopia
-Respiratory failure
- Upper limb motor deficit
- Progressive ascending lower limb sensorimotor deficit
-Areflexia
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Protein: 0.70
WCC: 0
RBC: 0
Viral panel: negative
Culture: no growth
Absent ulnar and sural sensory reponses with slowed median sensory and motor NCV, prolonged distal motor latencies, absent F-waves.
Age: 65
Sex: Female
Ethnicity: Caucasian
None AZ Onset: 1 week post 1st dose Influenza vaccine

4 weeks post influenza vaccination
GBS Nadir: at 2 weeks
-Lower Back Pain
-Dysphagia
- Diplopia
-Respiratory failure
-Progressive ascending upper limb and lower limb sensorimotor deficit
-Areflexia
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Protein 2.51 g/L
WCC: 5
RBS: 95
Viral panel - negative
Culture – no growth
Absent upper limb sensory responses with sural sparing, prolonged distal latencies, reduced amplitudes with temporal dispersion, slowed motor NCV, absent F-waves
Age: 72
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Idiopathic neuropathy AZ Onset: 3 weeks post 1st dose Influenza vaccine

6 weeks post influenza vaccination
CIDPa Nadir: at 5 weeks
-Lower back pain
-Progressive ascending lower limb sensorimotor involvement
-Upper limb motor deficit
- areflexia
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Protein: 0.55
WCC: 0
RBC: 0
Viral Panel: not tested
Culture: no growth
Absent sensory responses, Prolonged distal motor, and F- minimum latencies, slowed motor NCV.
Age: 66
Sex: Male
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Renal Cell Carcinoma
Atrial Fibrillation
Hypercholesterolemia
AZ 3 weeks post 1st dose Influenza vaccine

8 weeks post influenza vaccine
GBS Nadir at 4 weeks:
-lower back pain
-Progressive ascending sensorimotor involvement
-proximal lower limb weakness
-areflexia
Albuminocytologic dissociation
Protein: 1.5
WCC 0
RBC 0
Culture: No growth
Viral Panel: negative
Absent median sensory responses with sural sparing, absent peroneal and tibal motor responses, prolonged median distal motor, and F- minimum latencies with slowed motor NCV.
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AZ = Oxford/AstraZeneca ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 COVID-19 vaccine, GBS = Guillain Barre Syndrome, CIDP = Chronic inflammatory demyelinating neuropathy, NCV = nerve conduction velocity.