Category: Muscle & Joints

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A Pilot Case-Control Study of Muscle and Bone Health Status in Patients Who Have Recovered From COVID-19 Infection

Shital Bhor • Dipali Ladkat • Nikhil Shah • Ketan Gondhalekar • Piyush Chaudhari • Anuradha Khadilkar, DOI: 10.7759/cureus.76283  Abstract Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), resulting from the novel severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), affects various bodily systems, including…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Navigating the Diagnostic Maze: A Case of Post-COVID-19 Tenosynovitis

Navigating the Diagnostic Maze: A Case of Post-COVID-19 Tenosynovitis

Kasture Puspalingam • Malarkodi Suppamutharwyam, Navigating the Diagnostic Maze: A Case of Post-COVID-19 Tenosynovitis. Cureus 16(11): e73849. doi:10.7759/cureus.73849 Abstract Post-COVID-19 sequelae can include various complications, including musculoskeletal manifestations. Unvaccinated against COVID-19, a…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Researchers discover that tiredness experienced by long COVID patients has a physical cause

Researchers discover that tiredness experienced by long COVID patients has a physical cause

by Amsterdam University Medical Center Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44432-3 Researchers from Amsterdam UMC and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) have discovered that the persistent fatigue in patients with long COVID has…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on Unveiling the Connections Between Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 (MDA5)-Positive Dermatomyositis and Its Potential Association With COVID-19: A Report of Two Cases

Unveiling the Connections Between Melanoma Differentiation-Associated Gene 5 (MDA5)-Positive Dermatomyositis and Its Potential Association With COVID-19: A Report of Two Cases

Temitope B. Abegunde • Christophe Persad • Sojibuchi Ojule • Jane Colgan • Margaret Duncan, 2024DOI: 10.7759/cureus.65016  Abstract Dermatomyositis is a rare inflammatory condition affecting the skin, muscles, and joints. This series of anti-melanoma differentiation-associated gene 5 (anti-MDA5) autoantibody-positive…[...]

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Posted on | Posted on John Murphy | Leave a Comment on A Case of COVID-19-Triggered Polymyositis Leading to Rhabdomyolysis

A Case of COVID-19-Triggered Polymyositis Leading to Rhabdomyolysis

Sriya A. Reddy • Natalie Rivera Vargas • Aarushi Varshney • Olga Karasik, Published: July 10, 2024DOI: 10.7759/cureus.64267 Peer-Reviewed Abstract SARS-COVID-19 is known to manifest with a wide variety of symptoms, most of which are respiratory. Myalgias are a…[...]

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