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Introduction: Complications following COVID-19 are starting to emerge; neurological disorders are already described in the literature., Case Report: This case is about a 20-year old male with a severe COVID-19, hospitalized in a Reanimation and Intensive Care Unit with an Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome, thromboembolic complication and secondary bacterial infection. This patient had a non-specific neurological disorder with a pseudobulbar palsy, (MRI, ENMG and lumbar puncture were normal), associated 4 months later with persistent left shoulder motor deficit and respiratory failure. Respiratory and neurological check-up led to a diagnosis of the Parsonage-Turner syndrome or neuralgic amyotrophy affecting C5-C6 nerve roots, the lateral pectoral and phrenic nerves at the origin of the scapular belt, amyotrophy and left diaphragm paralysis., Conclusions: This case shows that persistant dyspnoea after COVID 19 infection should lead to a search for a diaphragmatic cause which is not always the result of Reanimation Neuropathy but may also indicate a neuralgic amyotrophy. It is the fourth case of neuralgic amyotrophy following COVID-19. This brings the medical community to consider the risk of diaphragm paralysis apart from critical illness polyneuropathy. Respiratory muscle evaluation and diaphragmatic ultrasound should be considered in case of persistent dyspnoea., (Copyright © 2021 SPLF. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)

Currently about 50% of cases of haemoptysis are thought to be cryptogenic. Haemorrhage from the pulmonary arterial system is rare and usually due to aneurysms or pseudoaneurysms, the radiological diagnosis of which is often difficult. We report here the case of a patient admitted with a heavy haemoptysis in whom the thoracic CT scan did not reveal the diagnosis. Bronchoscopy with endobronchial ultrasound showed a vascular malformation of a branch of the pulmonary artery allowing a radiological embolisation. This case underlines the importance of bronchoscopy and the role of ultrasound in the diagnosis of haemoptysis, considered ideopathic, complicating vascular malformations., (Copyright © 2017 SPLF. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.)