COVID-19PULMONARY function testsSYNDROMESLUNGSThe prevalence and duration of the long-term respiratory complications of COVID-19 infection remains to be elucidated. This short commentary reports on recently published studies in patients post-acute COVID-19 infection in terms of symptom prevalence, ...
Millions of people worldwide report having long COVID. The symptoms include lung damage, difficulty thinking and remembering, extreme tiredness, and other problems. Evidence suggests most people get better within a year. But recent data sh...
fatigue, and muscle aches at the onset of the disease, often accompany chest pain associated with COVID-19. However, COVID chest pain is a frequent symptom of long COVID and can persist long after the infection has cleared.
Lung injuries were almost 14 times higher among long COVID patients, while abnormal findings involving the brain and kidneys were three and two times higher respectively. How badly the organs were affected was often due to the severity of their infection, their age and other diseases in th...
New information about COVID-19 is being published at an unprecedented pace, resulting in more than 132,000 available peer-reviewed and non–peer-reviewed publications, on a wide range of issues, over 16 months.1 This pace may abate, but different and updated reports related to COVID-19 ...
Had multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS) during or after COVID-19. This is a rare disease where different body parts, including the heart, lungs, and brain, get inflamed. Have female anatomy. Women are 1.5 times as likely to have long COVID as men, according to a study. This might ...
Additionally, to strengthen long COVID research, future studies must account for biases and SARS-CoV-2 testing issues, build on viral-onset research, be inclusive of marginalized populations and meaningfully engage patients throughout the research process....
which researchers are trying to delineate, looking at hospitalised and non-hospitalised patients, for example. The next step is to analyse the different symptom clusters, which span from heart and lung issues to neurological problems to hormone complications. “Long Covid is a catch-all term for...
Pulmonologists: These doctors have played a central role in treating both COVID-19 and long COVID since the early days of the pandemic, when many patients went to the hospital with urgent symptoms, such as low oxygen levels and lung issues. They treat breathing difficulties, sometimes prescribi...
into lungs even one year after the COVID infection. Historically, we assume infection-related lung inflammation resolves by this point. The highly overlapping biological processes involving radiographic abnormalities and other non-COVID conditions that lead to fibrosis is an important finding," Sala ...