Category: Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia (POTS)

Prevalence and patterns of symptoms of dysautonomia in patients with long-COVID syndrome: A cross-sectional study

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Authors: Ahmed M. Eldokla,Aliae A. Mohamed-Hussein, Ahmed M. Fouad, et. al. 08 Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology Volume 9, Issue 6 p. 778-785 Abstract Background The association between autonomic dysfunction and long-COVID syndrome is established. However, the prevalence and patterns of symptoms of dysautonomia in long-COVID syndrome in a large population are lacking. Objective To […]

Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?

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May 3, 2024 Within minutes of getting the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, Michelle Zimmerman felt pain racing from her left arm up to her ear and down to her fingertips. Within days, she was unbearably sensitive to light and struggled to remember simple facts. She was 37, with a Ph.D. in neuroscience, and until […]

Long Covid Defined

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Authors: E. Wesley Ely, M.D., M.P.H. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3957-2172, Lisa M. Brown, M.P.H., and Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Examining the Working Definition for Long Covid, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb2408466 The Covid-19 pandemic has been perceived mainly as a dangerous acute outbreak of infection that killed more than a million people in the United States and 7 million worldwide.1,2 However, […]

Cardiorespiratory dysautonomia in post-COVID-19 condition: Manifestations, mechanisms and management

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Artur Fedorowski, Monika Fagevik Olsén, Frida Nikesjö, Christer Janson, Judith Bruchfeld, Maria Lerm, Kristofer Hedma: May 2023, Journal of Internal MedicineVolume 294, Issue 5 p. 548-562 Abstract A significant proportion of COVID-19 patients experience debilitating symptoms for months after the acute infection. According to recent estimates, approximately 1 out of 10 COVID-19 convalescents reports persistent health issues more than 3 months after […]

Dysautonomia and small fiber neuropathy in post-COVID condition and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

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N. Azcue, R. Del Pino, et. al., Journal of Translational Medicine volume 21, Article number: 814 (2023)  Abstract Background Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-COVID condition can present similarities such as fatigue, brain fog, autonomic and neuropathic symptoms. Methods The study included 87 patients with post-COVID condition, 50 patients with ME/CFS, and 50 healthy controls (HC). The hemodynamic autonomic function was […]

Study finds 67% of individuals with long COVID are developing dysautonomia

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By Shanet usan Alex, News Medical Life Sciences In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers analyzed the traits of autonomic symptom burden in long coronavirus disease (COVID). Study: Characterization of Autonomic Symptom Burden in Long COVID: A Global Survey of 2,314 Adults. This news article was a review of a preliminary scientific report that had […]

Long Covid is hard — here are five tips to help

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By Andrea Kane, CNN, November 9, 2023 (CNN) — Brain fog, fatigue, heart palpitations, post-exertional malaise and dizziness are a handful of the symptoms associated people with long Covid in adults. They are among the 12 symptoms identified as part of the National Institute of Health’s RECOVER initiative that can be reliably used to classify someone as having long […]

Orthostatic Intolerance in Long-Haul COVID after SARS-CoV-2: A Case-Control Comparison with Post-EBV and Insidious-Onset Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Patients

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C. (Linda) M. C. van Campen* and Frans C. Visser, Kenneth J. Friedman, Academic Editor, Patricia A. Fennell, Academic Editor, Derek F. H. Pheby, Academic Editor, Evan Spivack, Academic Editor, James M. Oleske, Academic Editor, Nancy Klimas, Academic Editor, Pawel Zalewski, Academic Editor, and Susan M. Levine, Academic Editor Healthcare (Basel). 2022 Oct; 10(10): 2058. Published online 2022 Oct 17. doi: 10.3390/healthcare10102058, PMCID: PMC9602265,PMID: 36292504 Abstract Background: As complaints of long-haul […]

Orthostatic tachycardia after covid-19

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BMJ 2023; 380 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj-2022-073488 (Published 24 February 2023)Cite this as: BMJ 2023;380:e073488, Ana B Espinosa-Gonzalez, Harsha Master, Nicholas Gall, Natalie Rogers, Trisha Greenhalgh What you need to know Patients with long covid—defined by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) as signs and symptoms that persist for more than four weeks (and especially more than 12 weeks) following acute […]

Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments

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The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system  Author: Stephani Sutherland   March 1, 2023 Tara Ghormley has always been an overachiever. She finished at the top of her class in high school, graduated summa cum laude from college and earned top honors in veterinary school. She […]