Bilateral facial palsy in a young patient after meningococcal meningitis, associated to herpetic infection

Abstract

Bilateral facial palsy is a rare clinical entity, which is often a special finding of a systemic disease, occurring in 0.3% to 2.0% of facial palsy cases1,2. Many of them are potentially life-threatening, and therefore the condition requires urgent medical intervention. Bacterial meningitis, Lyme Disease, (Bannwarth syndrome), syphilis, infectious mononucleosis, Guillan Barre syndrome, leukemia, sarcoidosis, Mobius syndrome are the most common cause of bilateral facial paralysis3,4 […] Bilateral facial palsy in a young patient after meningococcal meningitis, associated to herpetic [...]