by European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID 2022, Lisbon, 23–26 April) […]
New-Onset Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation in a Healthy Male With Post-COVID-19 Painless Thyroiditis: A Case Report
Valerie Chavez-Flores • Andro Sharobiem • Steven Kim • et. al.DOI: 10.7759/cureus.66288 Abstract Painless thyroiditis is a variant of thyroiditis without the typical neck pain and is otherwise similar to subacute thyroiditis, which is a known post-viral […]
Long Covid: Hormone Imbalances and/or Rather Complex Immune Dysregulations?
Christian A Koch, Journal of the Endocrine Society, Volume 8, Issue 5, May 2024, bvae043, https://doi.org/10.1210/jendso/bvae043 Approximately 5% of all individuals infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) do […]
New studies point to nerve damage as a cause of long COVID
By Rich Haridy, The neuropathy study was published in the journal Neurology: Neuroimmunology & Neuroinflammation. Early indications show treatment for nerve damage may improve long COVID symptoms in some patients New research […]
What Do We Know About Long COVID?
COVID-19 is a respiratory disease caused by an infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The disease causes symptoms such as fever, cough, and shortness of breath. Symptoms can feel much like […]
Dismissed and Disbelieved, Some Long COVID Patients Are Pushed Into Psychiatric Wards
Story by Jamie Ducharme, MSN In late 2022, Erin, a 43-year-old from Pennsylvania, agreed to spend six weeks in a psychiatric ward, getting intensive treatment for an illness she knew she […]
Stony Brook study: Long COVID risk increases with multiple infections, vaccination status in 9/11 essential workers
By Lisa L. Colangelolisa.colangelo@newsday.com@lisalcolangelo, Newsday People who have had multiple bouts of COVID-19, had it severely, and those who were unvaccinated when first infected had an increased risk of developing long COVID, […]
5 things we know and still don’t know about COVID, 5 years after it appeared
By LAURAN NEERGAARD, LAURA UNGAR and MIKE STOBBE, A.P. Five years ago, a cluster of people in Wuhan, China, fell sick with a virus never before seen in the world. The germ didn’t have […]
Does nerve damage contribute to long COVID symptoms?
Almost all post-COVID neuropathy linked to a potentially treatable immune dysfunction MGH News and Public Affairs A new study suggests that some patients with long COVID have lasting nerve damage […]
Two-Year Longitudinal Study Reveals That Long COVID Symptoms Peak and Quality of Life Nadirs at 6–12 Months Postinfection
Zoe O Demko, Tong Yu, Sarika K Mullapudi, M Gabriela Varela Heslin, et. al.Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 11, Issue 3, March 2024, ofae027, https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofae027 Abstract Background Few longitudinal studies available characterize long COVID outcomes […]