Four years ago, Chimére L. Sweeney was a healthy 37-year-old working as a middle school teacher in Baltimore. But then Sweeney got COVID-19 in March 2020. In the months that followed, Sweeney developed debilitating headaches, fatigue, spinal pain, dizziness, vision loss, gastrointestinal issu...
A: While chest pain is a prevalent symptom of COVID-19, experiencing this symptom alone does not necessarily indicate that you have the virus. Various issues can cause chest pain, including cardiac problems or non-cardiac conditions such as gastrointestinal reflux disease (GERD), strained chest m...
A comprehensive evaluation of the risks and 1-year burdens of gastrointestinal disorders in the post-acute phase of COVID-19 is needed but is not yet available. Here we use the US Department of Veterans Affairs national health care databases to build a cohort of 154,068 people with COVID-...
These symptoms are commonly referred to as long COVID, affecting multiple systems and including cardiovascular, pulmonary, hematologic, renal, endocrine, gastrointestinal, musculoskeletal, neurologic, and psychiatric signs and symptoms, according to the CDC. COVID-19 survivors have twice the risk for ...
Long COVID syndrome, also known as post-COVID, is more than fatigue and shortness of breath. Symptoms such as headaches, brain fog and ringing in the ears have been reported, and recently, physicians are seeing more patients with gastrointestinal problems. Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D., director...
The meaning of LONG COVID is a condition that is marked by the presence of symptoms (such as fatigue, cough, shortness of breath, headache, or brain fog) which persist for an extended period of time (such as weeks or months) following a person's initial
Other symptoms reported include chest pain, palpitations, neurological and cognitive deficits, rashes, and gastrointestinal dysfunction. We present a complex case of a previously well 28-year-old woman who was diagnosed with COVID-19. After resolution of her acute symptoms, she continued to ...
had COVID-19 are at a higher risk of developing gastrointestinal disorders within a year of infection. These disorders include liver problems, acute pancreatitis, irritable bowel syndrome, acid reflux, and ulcers, as well as symptoms like constipation, diarrhea, abdominal pain, bloating, and ...
Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 (PASC), also known as Post-Covid Syndrome, and colloquially as Long Covid, has been defined as a constellation of signs and symptoms which persist for weeks or months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection. PASC affects
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection has resulted in a serious public health burden worldwide. In addition to respiratory, heart, and gastrointestinal symptoms,