Viral Persistence and Serotonin Reduction Can Cause Long COVID Symptoms, Penn Medicine Research Finds

Components of the SARS-CoV-2 virus remain in the gut of some long COVID patients, causing persistent inflammation, vagus nerve dysfunction, and neurological symptoms PHILADELPHIA—Patients with long COVID – the long-term symptoms like…[...]

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New Report Reviews Evidence on Long COVID Diagnosis, Risk, Symptoms, and Functional Impact for Patients

News Release | June 5, 2024 WASHINGTON — A new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine presents conclusions about Long COVID diagnosis, symptoms, and impact on daily function — including…[...]

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Successful Treatment of Post-coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Autoimmune Encephalitis With Plasmapheresis After a Failed Trial of Steroids

Tony Kamel • William Toppen • Yasaman Salahmand DOI: 10.7759/cureus.85150  Abstract In December 2021, a 58-year-old unvaccinated woman with a past medical history of obesity presented to an outside hospital with severe coronavirus disease 2019…[...]

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Non-invasive brain microcurrent stimulation therapy of long-COVID-19 reduces vascular dysregulation and improves visual and cognitive impairment

Bernhard A Sabel a,*, Wanshu Zhou a, Frank Huber a, et. al., PMCID: PMC8764598  PMID: 34924406 Abstract Background: An effective treatment is needed for long-COVID patients which suffer from symptoms of vision and/or cognition impairment such as impaired…[...]

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Long Covid and Impaired Cognition — More Evidence and More Work to Do

Authors: Ziyad Al-Aly, M.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2600-0434, and Clifford J. Rosen, M.D., N Engl J Med 2024;390:858-860, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe2400189, VOL. 390 NO. 9 During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, reports emerged that persons who had been infected with SARS-CoV-2 were having…[...]

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