Long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome: putative pathophysiology, risk factors, and treatments.

ABSTRACT: Long COVID or post-COVID-19 syndrome first gained widespread recognition among social support groups and later in scientific and medical communities. This illness is poorly understood as it affects COVID-19 survivors at all levels of disease severity, even younger adults, children, and those not hospitalized. While the precise definition of long COVID may be lacking, the most common symptoms reported in many studies are fatigue and dyspnoea that last for months after acute COVID-19. Other persistent symptoms may include cognitive and mental impairments, chest and joint pains, palpitations, myalgia, smell and taste dysfunctions, cough, headache, and gastrointestinal and cardiac issues. Presently, there is limited literature discussing the possible pathophysiology, risk factors, and treatmen

SUBMITTER: Yong SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8146298 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature