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The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns
Long COVID-19 syndrome refers to persisting symptoms (>12 weeks) after the initial coronavirus infection and is estimated to affect 3% to 12% of people diagnosed with the disease globally. Aim: We conducted a collaborative study with the Long COVID patient organization in Greece, in order to esti...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224912/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060987 |
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author | Katsarou, Martha-Spyridoula Iasonidou, Eleni Osarogue, Alexander Kalafatis, Efthymios Stefanatou, Maria Pappa, Sofia Gatzonis, Stylianos Verentzioti, Anastasia Gounopoulos, Pantelis Demponeras, Christos Konstantinidou, Eleni Drakoulis, Nikolaos Asimakos, Andreas Antonoglou, Archontoula Mavronasou, Aspasia Spetsioti, Stavroula Kotanidou, Anastasia Katsaounou, Paraskevi |
author_facet | Katsarou, Martha-Spyridoula Iasonidou, Eleni Osarogue, Alexander Kalafatis, Efthymios Stefanatou, Maria Pappa, Sofia Gatzonis, Stylianos Verentzioti, Anastasia Gounopoulos, Pantelis Demponeras, Christos Konstantinidou, Eleni Drakoulis, Nikolaos Asimakos, Andreas Antonoglou, Archontoula Mavronasou, Aspasia Spetsioti, Stavroula Kotanidou, Anastasia Katsaounou, Paraskevi |
author_sort | Katsarou, Martha-Spyridoula |
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description | Long COVID-19 syndrome refers to persisting symptoms (>12 weeks) after the initial coronavirus infection and is estimated to affect 3% to 12% of people diagnosed with the disease globally. Aim: We conducted a collaborative study with the Long COVID patient organization in Greece, in order to estimate the characteristics, symptoms, and challenges these patients confront. Methods: Data were collected from 208 patients using unstructured qualitative free-text entries in an anonymized online questionnaire. Results: The majority of respondents (68.8%) were not hospitalized and reported lingering symptoms (66.8%) for more than six months. Eighteen different symptoms (fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, parosmia, etc.) were mentioned in both hospitalized and community patients. Awareness of Long COVID sequelae seems to be low even among medical doctors. Treatment options incorporating targeted rehabilitation programs are either not available or still not included inthe management plan of Long COVID patients. Conclusions: Patients infected with coronavirus with initial mild symptoms suffer from the same persistent symptoms as those who were hospitalized. Long COVID syndrome appears to be a multi-systemic entity and a multidisciplinary medical approach should be adopted in order to correctly diagnose and successfully manage these patients. |
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spelling | pubmed-92249122022-06-24 The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns Katsarou, Martha-Spyridoula Iasonidou, Eleni Osarogue, Alexander Kalafatis, Efthymios Stefanatou, Maria Pappa, Sofia Gatzonis, Stylianos Verentzioti, Anastasia Gounopoulos, Pantelis Demponeras, Christos Konstantinidou, Eleni Drakoulis, Nikolaos Asimakos, Andreas Antonoglou, Archontoula Mavronasou, Aspasia Spetsioti, Stavroula Kotanidou, Anastasia Katsaounou, Paraskevi J Pers Med Article Long COVID-19 syndrome refers to persisting symptoms (>12 weeks) after the initial coronavirus infection and is estimated to affect 3% to 12% of people diagnosed with the disease globally. Aim: We conducted a collaborative study with the Long COVID patient organization in Greece, in order to estimate the characteristics, symptoms, and challenges these patients confront. Methods: Data were collected from 208 patients using unstructured qualitative free-text entries in an anonymized online questionnaire. Results: The majority of respondents (68.8%) were not hospitalized and reported lingering symptoms (66.8%) for more than six months. Eighteen different symptoms (fatigue, palpitations, shortness of breath, parosmia, etc.) were mentioned in both hospitalized and community patients. Awareness of Long COVID sequelae seems to be low even among medical doctors. Treatment options incorporating targeted rehabilitation programs are either not available or still not included inthe management plan of Long COVID patients. Conclusions: Patients infected with coronavirus with initial mild symptoms suffer from the same persistent symptoms as those who were hospitalized. Long COVID syndrome appears to be a multi-systemic entity and a multidisciplinary medical approach should be adopted in order to correctly diagnose and successfully manage these patients. MDPI 2022-06-17 /pmc/articles/PMC9224912/ /pubmed/35743774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060987 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Katsarou, Martha-Spyridoula Iasonidou, Eleni Osarogue, Alexander Kalafatis, Efthymios Stefanatou, Maria Pappa, Sofia Gatzonis, Stylianos Verentzioti, Anastasia Gounopoulos, Pantelis Demponeras, Christos Konstantinidou, Eleni Drakoulis, Nikolaos Asimakos, Andreas Antonoglou, Archontoula Mavronasou, Aspasia Spetsioti, Stavroula Kotanidou, Anastasia Katsaounou, Paraskevi The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title | The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title_full | The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title_fullStr | The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title_full_unstemmed | The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title_short | The Greek Collaborative Long COVID Study: Non-Hospitalized and Hospitalized Patients Share Similar Symptom Patterns |
title_sort | greek collaborative long covid study: non-hospitalized and hospitalized patients share similar symptom patterns |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9224912/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35743774 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/jpm12060987 |
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