TY - JOUR T1 - Tapia’s syndrome in a patient with COVID-19 JF - Practical Neurology JO - Pract Neurol SP - 146 LP - 149 DO - 10.1136/pn-2022-003487 VL - 23 IS - 2 AU - Tharuka Herath AU - Nadiene Lutchman AU - Leena Naidu AU - Sunil Wimalaratna Y1 - 2023/04/01 UR - http://pn.bmj.com/content/23/2/146.abstract N2 - A 42-year-old man developed bilateral Tapia’s syndrome (recurrent laryngeal and hypoglossal nerves paralysis) following prolonged ventilation for COVID-19 pneumonia. Examination showed global tongue atrophy and bilateral asymmetric vocal cord palsy. He improved rapidly without specific treatment, suggesting that neuropraxia was the likely mechanism of injury. Tapia’s syndrome has been reported disproportionately more often in association with COVID-19, possibly from injury to hypoglossal and vagal nerves during ventilation in the prone position.No data are available. ER -