• Mostafa Meshref, Nour Shaheen, Sarya Swed, Mohamed Ibrahim, Mostafa Reda Mostafa, Mohamed Osman Algazar, Monica Dobs, Sarah Ibrahim Elsayed, Yara Amro, Ahmed Afsa, and Mostafa Ebraheem Morra.
• Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
• Medicine (Baltimore). 2022 Dec 9; 101 (49): e32023e32023.

BackgroundCovid-19 has serious sequelae that may be poorly understood, underreported, and, as a result, not diagnosed promptly, such as variations in clinical manifestations of hyperinflammation among people infected with SARS-CoV-2. ophthalmoplegia can be one of these manifestations.MethodsWe are reporting a 55-year-old male patient with unilateral diplopia considering it as a case of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in adults. We also reviewed the literature systematically for the previously reported studies/cases with third, fourth and sixth cranial nerve palsies due to or after Covid-19.ResultsThe literature search yielded 17 studies reporting 29 patients. 71.4% of the patients were males with a mean age of 42.23 years. Ophthalmological symptoms took 9.7 days to appear after the respiratory involvement. All patients had diplopia as part of their visual symptoms. 41.4% of the patients had unilateral sixth nerve palsy, 24% had bilateral sixth nerve involvement, 17% had fourth nerve involvement, and 27.6% had third nerve involvement.ConclusionOphthalmoplegia is considered presenting symptom of Covid-19. Further research is needed to detect all neuro-ophthalmological manifestations of Covid-19.Copyright © 2022 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.

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