Cognitive disorders and sleep disturbances in long COVID]

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Authors: Claudia Schilling 1, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg 2, Janina Isabel Schweiger 2PMID: 35576015 PMCID: PMC9109661 DOI: 10.1007/s00115-022-01297-z Background: During the last 2 years of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, knowledge about the long-term effects of the disease, the so-called long COVID, has rapidly grown; however, many questions remain unanswered, especially regarding the causes of persistent symptoms and their prognosis. Cognitive disorders and sleep disturbances […]

First long COVID treatment clinical trials from NIH getting underway

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Alex Tan August 23, 2023 Two new clinical trials to test potential treatments for long COVID are now set to launch, the National Institutes of Health said Monday, opening enrollment for the first of an array of federally-funded studies aimed at evaluating treatments for long-term symptoms still faced by many COVID-19 survivors. They will begin with a […]

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 Stephani Sutherland on 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 went on […]

Researchers fear people of color may be disproportionately affected by long Covid

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Blitshteyn worries about the low rate of full recovery she observed in a March 2021 case series of 20 patients with new-onset postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (a condition affecting blood flow that leads to dizziness, rapid heart rate, and fainting) and other autonomic disorders after Covid. While 60% of patients improved, only 15% returned to working full-time […]

New research sheds light on the causes of fatigue after COVID-19

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Newcastle University MAY 11, 2023 Experts from Newcastle University found the nervous system of people with post-COVID fatigue was underactive in three key areas. Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms of long COVID. The breakthrough could lead to better treatment and tests to identify the condition and the team are already progressing the […]

Doctor’s Checklist for Treating Long COVID Patients

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Written by Hallie Levine April 4, 2023 Lisa McCorkell had a mild bout of COVID-19 in March 2020. Young and healthy, she assumed that she would bounce back quickly. But when her fatigue, shortness of breath, and brain fog persisted, she realized that she most likely had long COVID.  “Back then, we as patients basically coined […]

What Is Interstitial Lung Disease?

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By Lana Barhum  November 16, 2022  Medically reviewed by Susan Russell, MD Interstitial lung disease (ILD) includes more than 200 conditions that cause inflammation and scarring of lung tissue.1 The damage done by interstitial lung disease makes it harder for oxygen to enter the bloodstream from the air sacs of the lungs. The prevalence of ILD in the US is […]

Vaccine-induced interstitial lung disease: a rare reaction to COVID-19 vaccination

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Alison M DeDent, Erica Farrand Correspondence to Dr Alison M DeDent, 513 Parnassus Ave, HSE 1314, Box 0111, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California CA 94143, USA; alison.dedent@ucsf.edu The COVID-19 Vaccine: A Historic Achievement with a Rare Adverse Event The first vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) was given emergency use listing by the World Health Organization (WHO) […]

COVID-19 in Patients with Pre-Existing Interstitial Lung Disease: Potential Value of a Steroid-Based Treatment Strategy

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J Clin Med. 2023 Aug; 12(15): 4940. Published online 2023 Jul 27. doi: 10.3390/jcm12154940 PMCID: PMC10419957 PMID: 37568341 Authors: Toru Arai, Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Funding acquisition,1,* Yu Kurahara, Resources, Writing – review & editing, Supervision,1,2 Mitsuhiro Moda, Resources, Writing – review & editing,3 Takehiko Kobayashi, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1 Yoshinobu Matsuda, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1,3 Tomoko Kagawa, Resources, Writing – review & editing,1,3 Reiko Sugawara, Resources, Writing – review & editing,3 Kazunari Tsuyuguchi, Writing […]

Post-COVID Interstitial Lung Disease: What you Need to Know

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Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation, Apr 28, 2023 After being hospitalized for three months with COVID-19 and double pneumonia in 2020, Houston police officer Hito Bazan awoke one morning to discover that he couldn’t talk, eat, walk, or most importantly, breathe. Bazan was diagnosed with interstitial lung disease (ILD) known as pulmonary fibrosis (PF). Three years into […]