The knowns and unknowns of long COVID-19: from mechanisms to therapeutical approaches


Roxana Gheorghita1,2Iuliana Soldanescu3Andrei Lobiuc2, et. al. University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Timisoara, Romania The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has been defined as the greatest global health…[...]

Pathophysiology and Management of Tongue Involvement in COVID-19 Patients


Authors: Zeinab Mohseni Afshar, Mohammad Barary, Soheil Ebrahimpour, Alireza Janbakhsh, Mandana Afsharian, Amirhossein Hasanpour & Arefeh Babazadeh Indian Journal of Otolaryngology and Head & Neck Surgery (2022) Abstract Evaluate the lingual manifestations of COVID-19, and provide a clinical guide…[...]

What we know and don’t know about long COVID


Much about the chronic condition remains unclear nearly 3 years into the pandemic Authhors:  Daniel de Visé | Oct. 20, 2022 Changing America Story at a glance The lack of diagnostic…[...]

Extensive thrombosis after COVID-19 vaccine: cause or coincidence


Authors: Luís Lourenço Graça ,1 Maria João Amaral ,2 Marco Serôdio,3 Beatriz Costa2 SUMMARYA 62-year-old Caucasian female patient presented with abdominal pain, vomiting and fever 1 day after administration of…[...]

Intestinal Damage in COVID-19: SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Intestinal Thrombosis


Authors: Xiaoming Wu1, Haijiao Jing1, Chengyue Wang1, Yufeng Wang1, Nan Zuo1, Tao Jiang2*, Valerie A. Novakovic3 and Jialan Shi1,3,4* Front. Microbiol., 22 March 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2022.860931 The intestinal tract, with high expression of angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2), is a…[...]

Review of Mesenteric Ischemia in COVID-19 Patients


Authors: Amit Gupta, Oshin Sharma, Kandhala Srikanth, Rahul Mishra, Amoli Tandon & Deepak Rajput  Indian Journal of Surgery (2022) Published: 11 March 2022 Abstract The new coronavirus (COVID-19) infection, first detected in Wuhan, China in 2019 has become…[...]

SARS-CoV-2 and acute diverticulitis: The expanding gastrointestinal manifestations of COVID-19 infection


Authors: Simcha Weissman,Anna Belyayeva,Sachit Sharma,Muhammad Aziz, J Transl Int Med. 2021 Mar; 9(1): 59–60.Published online 2021 Mar 31. doi: 10.2478/jtim-2021-0019PMCID: PMC8016353PMID: 3385080 SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus which emerged in late 2019, has spread rapidly and…[...]

Prevalence of organ impairment in Long COVID patients 6 and 12 months after initial symptoms


Authors:  Pooja Toshniwal PahariaMar 24 2022Reviewed by Danielle Ellis, B.Sc. In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers assessed the prevalence of organ impairment in long coronavirus disease 2019…[...]

Massive gastrointestinal bleeding in a patient with COVID-19


Authors: Mahmoud Mohamed,a,⁎Mahmoud Nassar,bNso Nso,b and Mostafa Alfishawyc Arab J Gastroenterol. 2021 Jun; 22(2): 177–179.Published online 2021 May 14.  doi: 10.1016/j.ajg.2021.05.00 8PMCID: PMC8118668PMID: 34090835 Abstract Despite the emerging data about the thrombophilic effect of the novel…[...]