Neurological complications in infection with the SARS-COV-2 virus: Parkinson’s disease and the impact on professional reintegration - case study

Abstract Complications of the SARS-CoV-2 infection have significantly impacted affected people’s quality life and professional activity. Neurological manifestations may be present from onset but also in course disease. The most common neurological symptoms are headache, anosmia/hyposmia, ageusia/dysgeusia, myalgia. studies mention severe complications such as stroke, cerebral hemorrhage, meningitis, encephalitis, Guillain-Barré syndrome, acute transverse myelitis, convulsions, movement disorders, with virus is affecting both central peripheral nervous systems. can worsen Parkinson’s disease, increasing mortality rate patients advanced potential risk inducing disease has been suggested, penetrating brain where it trigger cellular processes involved neurodegeneration. We you case a nurse medical field, without comorbidities, who developed after virus. Establishing cause-and-effect relationship between viral possible, mechanisms by which affects system involvement immune pathogenesis these still under study. progression functional status, ability to work negative impact on