Guillain-Barré Syndrome in a 67-year-old Male Post COVID-19 Vaccination (Astra Zeneca)
Silfat Azam, Abdalla Khalil, Ahmad F. Taha
Abstract
Since the COVID-19 pandemic has started in December 2019, millions of people have been infected all over the world and few vaccines have been invented recently. Extremely rare, Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) was reported as a neurological complication after H1N1 flu vaccination. Currently, Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines are available to prevent infection with COVID-19. The first case of post-COVID-19 vaccine GBS has been detected in a secondary care hospital after vaccination with AstraZeneca. A 67-year-old man presented with an acute progressive ascending flaccid symmetrical motor neuropathy, and bilateral facial weakness which developed two weeks after receiving the first dose of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. His cerebrospinal fluid findings, nerve conduction result, and MRI brain result were all in favour of GBS diagnosis. The patientâs workup for all known infections associated with immune-mediated GBS was negative.