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Critical illness myopathy after COVID-19.
Article in International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04784546 (Evaluation of Muscle Strength, Functional Independence, Myalgia Severity, Physical Fatigue and Dyspnea in Patients With COVID-19 Infection), which is not on this map. Cited by 53 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Evaluation of Muscle Strength, Functional Independence, Myalgia Severity, Physical Fatigue and Dyspnea in Patients With COVID-19 Infection
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53 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 84 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Predictors of discharge disposition and mortality following hospitalization with SARS-CoV-2 infection.PloS one · 2023Article
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- Multicenter analysis of neutrophil extracellular trap dysregulation in adult and pediatric COVID-19.JCI insight · 2022Article
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- [Sleep disorders and fatigue syndrome in long COVID syndrome: case-based experiences from neurological/sleep medicine rehabilitation].Somnologie : Schlafforschung und Schlafmedizin = Somnology : sleep research and sleep medicine · 2022Review
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Abstract
This paper describes a patient who developed diffuse and symmetrical muscle weakness after a long stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The patient underwent a neurophysiological protocol, including nerve conduction studies, concentric needle electromyography (EMG) of the proximal and distal muscles, and direct muscle stimulation (DMS). Nerve conduction studies showed normal sensory conduction and low-amplitude compound muscle action potentials (CMAPs). EMG revealed signs of myopathy, which were more pronounced in the lower limbs. The post-DMS CMAP was absent in the quadriceps and of reduced amplitude in the tibialis anterior muscle. Based on these clinical and neurophysiological findings, a diagnosis of critical illness myopathy was made according to the current diagnostic criteria. Given the large number of patients with COVID-19 who require long ICU stays, many are very likely to develop ICU-acquired weakness, as did the patient described here. Health systems must plan to provide adequate access to rehabilitative facilities for both pulmonary and motor rehabilitative treatment after COVID-19.
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