Chronic Fatigue May Be Long-Term Effect of COVID
Authors: Carolyn Crist A large number of people who contract the coronavirus don’t fully recover in a few weeks, and many of them are experiencing chronic fatigue. More than a…[...]
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What Is COVID Fatigue?
Authors: Paul Thagard Ph.D. Pandemic fatigue is a complex of emotions that includes sadness and boredom. The scientific study of pandemics requires the cooperation of many medical fields including virology,…[...]
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More than half of Covid-19 patients have lasting fatigue, research suggests
Authors: Erika Edwards Covid-19 can leave many people with potentially debilitating fatigue months after they've recovered from the illness, research released Thursday found. The long-term lethargy was reported in patients…[...]
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Dysautonomia
Authors: Cleveland Clinic What is dysautonomia? Dysautonomia is a general term for a group of disorders that share a common problem – that is, an autonomic nervous system (ANS) that…[...]
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What is cytokine release syndrome?
Authors: Medical News Today Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) can cause a variety of symptoms, including fever, headaches, and nausea. The symptoms can become severe quickly. CRS occurs when the immune system…[...]
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What Is a Cytokine Storm? Doctors Explain How Some COVID-19 Patients’ Immune Systems Turn Deadly
Authors: Sarah Bradley The news cycle is heavily saturated with stress-inducing information about COVID-19, but one of the most worrying aspects so far has been the huge disparity in the way the novel…[...]
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Cytokine Storm in COVID-19—Immunopathological Mechanisms, Clinical Considerations, and Therapeutic Approaches: The REPROGRAM Consortium Position Paper
Authors: Sonu Bhaskar,1,2,3,* Akansha Sinha,1,4 Maciej Banach,1,5,6,7 Shikha Mittoo,1,8 Robert Weissert,1,9 Joseph S. Kass,1,10 Santhosh Rajagopal,1,11 Anupama R. Pai,1,12 and Shelby Kutty1,13,14 Cytokine storm is an acute hyperinflammatory response that may be responsible for critical illness in many conditions…[...]
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COVID-19 cytokine storm: The anger of inflammation
Authors: Mehdi Mahmudpour 1, Jamshid Roozbeh 2, Mohsen Keshavarz 1, Shokrollah Farrokhi 3, Iraj Nabipour 4 Patients with COVID-19 who require ICU admission might have the cytokine storm. It is a state of out-of-control release of a variety of…[...]
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Cytokine Storm in COVID-19: The Current Evidence and Treatment Strategies
Authors: Yujun Tang,† Jiajia Liu,† Dingyi Zhang, Zhenghao Xu, Jinjun Ji,* and Chengping Wen* Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-Cov-2) is the pathogen that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). As of 25 May 2020, the…[...]
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SARS-CoV-2 infection: The role of cytokines in COVID-19 disease
Authors: Víctor J Costela-Ruiz 1, Rebeca Illescas-Montes 1, Jose M Puerta-Puerta 2, Concepción Ruiz 3, Lucia Melguizo-Rodríguez 1 COVID-19 disease, caused by infection with SARS-CoV-2, is related to a series of physiopathological mechanisms that mobilize a wide variety of…[...]
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