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COVID-19: Post-recovery Manifestations

Background Post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as long COVID, is a disorder that has many characteristics, one of which is chronic fatigue following acute infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Methodology We distributed a web-based survey among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the world and col...

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Autores principales: Shaikh, Safia, Siddiqi, Zunaira, Ukachukwu, Crystal, Mehkari, Zainab, Khan, Sadaf, Pamurthy, Ketan, Jahan, Farhat, Brown, Amaiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37128534
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36886
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author Shaikh, Safia
Siddiqi, Zunaira
Ukachukwu, Crystal
Mehkari, Zainab
Khan, Sadaf
Pamurthy, Ketan
Jahan, Farhat
Brown, Amaiya
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Siddiqi, Zunaira
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description Background Post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as long COVID, is a disorder that has many characteristics, one of which is chronic fatigue following acute infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Methodology We distributed a web-based survey among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the world and collected 190 responses regarding their demographics, histories, COVID-19 infection courses, and common symptoms. Results We found that about 85.3% of the patients experienced some form of symptom following recovery from the infection. Among the reported symptoms, 59% of patients experienced fatigue or lethargy, 48.9% reported decreased stamina, 32.6% reported shortness of breath, 16.8% had a persistent cough, and 23.7% experienced anxiety following recovery from COVID-19. Conclusions Reported symptoms closely resembled myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS); however, a deeper biochemical understanding of ME/CFS is required to confirm causation.
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spelling pubmed-101475642023-04-30 COVID-19: Post-recovery Manifestations Shaikh, Safia Siddiqi, Zunaira Ukachukwu, Crystal Mehkari, Zainab Khan, Sadaf Pamurthy, Ketan Jahan, Farhat Brown, Amaiya Cureus Family/General Practice Background Post-COVID-19 syndrome, also known as long COVID, is a disorder that has many characteristics, one of which is chronic fatigue following acute infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Methodology We distributed a web-based survey among patients diagnosed with COVID-19 across the world and collected 190 responses regarding their demographics, histories, COVID-19 infection courses, and common symptoms. Results We found that about 85.3% of the patients experienced some form of symptom following recovery from the infection. Among the reported symptoms, 59% of patients experienced fatigue or lethargy, 48.9% reported decreased stamina, 32.6% reported shortness of breath, 16.8% had a persistent cough, and 23.7% experienced anxiety following recovery from COVID-19. Conclusions Reported symptoms closely resembled myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS); however, a deeper biochemical understanding of ME/CFS is required to confirm causation. Cureus 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10147564/ /pubmed/37128534 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36886 Text en Copyright © 2023, Shaikh et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Brown, Amaiya
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