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A Murine Model of Hemodialysis Access-Related Hand Dysfunction
Published on: May 31, 2022
COVID 19 and myoclonus, do hemodialysis patients have more risk?
Salia Virxinia Pol Heres1, Nuria Aresté Fosalba1, Ana Barragán-Prieto2
1Servicio de Nefrología del Hospital Universitario Virgen Macarena, Sevilla, Spain.
Abstract:
We discuss two recent cases from our hospital in which two patients with ESKD receiving periodical hemodialysis (HD) and SarS-Cov-2 infection suffered movement disorders, being the onset related to the HD sessions in both. First case is a 78 year-old woman who is admitted with generalized myoclonic status epilepticus and second case is a 46 year-old male who starts repeatedly suffering myoclonus during his hemodialysis sessions on day +10 after testing positive (asymptomatic infection). There are two main hypotheses when it comes to myoclonus and CNS disorders in COVID19, post-hypoxic origin and inmunomediated postinfectious origin. We wonder if they could both be interacting in patients with kidney disease, and especially in those who receive hemodialysis, maximizing the risk of suffering this type of disorders.
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