@article{Correa Barrera_Gómez del Pulgar Vázquez_Orozco Vinasco_Sánchez Zamora_Sánchez Solano_Martos Gisbert_Saz Castro_Orozco Vinasco_San Juan Álvarez_García Rueda_2021, title={Bilateral vocal fold paralysis after COVID-19 infection. Another neuro-invasive manifestation? Case series}, volume={50}, url={https://www.revcolanest.com.co/index.php/rca/article/view/978}, DOI={10.5554/22562087.e978}, abstractNote={<p>The agent that causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), associated with the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2), produces a spectrum of symptoms that mainly affect the respiratory system, the central nervous system (CNS), the regulation of hemostasis and the immune system.</p> <p>Bilateral vocal fold paralysis (BVFP) is a condition of unknown incidence among infected patients, either because it is short-lived or because of the difficulty in establishing a direct cause to the virus.</p> <p>Viral infection has been described in the literature as a cause of BVFP and there is the suspicion that a proportion of the idiopathic cases are due to undiagnosed viral infections.</p> <p>Although the neurotropic mechanisms for SARS-CoV-2 remain unclear, there is strong evidence to ensure its neuroinvasive potential.</p> <p>The most frequent etiologies of BVFP are trauma, neoplasm, and neurological, but a viral origin should not be ruled out. Causality between COVID-19 and BVFP is plausible and will require further study in the short and long term.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Colombian Journal of Anesthesiology}, author={Correa Barrera, Juan José and Gómez del Pulgar Vázquez, Blanca and Orozco Vinasco, Adriana and Sánchez Zamora, Purificación and Sánchez Solano, Sonia and Martos Gisbert, Natalia and Saz Castro, Rubén and Orozco Vinasco, David and San Juan Álvarez, Mónica and García Rueda, Antonio}, year={2021}, month={Mar.} }