While the majority of COVID-19 patients experience mild to moderate symptoms or recover within a few weeks, a significant proportion develop persistent symptoms that can last for months. This condition is known as long COVID or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC). A critical ...
Long COVID is an often debilitating illness that occurs in at least 10% of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections. More than 200 symptoms have been identified with impacts on multiple organ systems. At least 65 million individuals worldwide are estimated to have...
Among cancer patients who developed long COVID, 59 were readmitted to the hospital, though only 16 were admitted related to COVID. Most had symptoms that could be managed by outpatient care. “Our study found that long COVID-19 occurred in the majority of our cancer patients and was more ...
“While the vaccines may help to reduce the risks of long COVID, they do not offer complete protection against long-term symptoms of COVID-19 that can affect the heart, lungs, brain, and now, we know, the GI tract,” Al-Aly said. Compared with patients in the control groups, people ...
Long Covid has baffled doctors throughout the pandemic, but some are seeing patient symptoms alleviated with low-dose naltrexone.
(Fig.1a) before any SARS-CoV-2 vaccination or reinfection. LC individuals, who consistently exhibited LC symptoms such as fatigue, ‘brain fog’ and sleep disturbance over 8 months, were 63% female and included 26% previously hospitalized for COVID-19 (Extended Data Fig.1a–cand ...
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The researchers found that when tryptophan absorption is reduced by persistent viral inflammation, serotonin is depleted, leading to disrupted vagus nerve signaling, which in turn can cause several of the symptoms associated with long COVID, such as memory loss. ...
We all have this neurotransmitter. But unfortunately, many people don’t have enough of it and more and more researchers and doctors are finding a connection between low levels of serotonin and long COVID symptoms. Dr. Aisha Thomas, internal medicine and infectious disease specialist at Sebastian...
Long-term complications after coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are common in hospitalized patients, but the spectrum of symptoms in milder cases needs further investigation. We conducted a long-term follow-up in a prospective cohort study of 312 patie