ReviewDer Pneumologe2020
[Is there a post-COVID syndrome?]
Review in Der Pneumologe, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- More than 50 long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2021Pooled it
- Application of an EMG-Rehabilitation Robot in Patients with Post-Coronavirus Fatigue Syndrome (COVID-19)-A Feasibility Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Trial
- Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) and Exercise Interventions: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Prevalence of Post-COVID-19 Syndrome and Related Factors among University Employees: A Prospective Cohort Study.Journal of clinical practice and research · 2023Article
- In silico transcriptional analysis of asymptomatic and severe COVID-19 patients reveals the susceptibility of severe patients to other comorbidities and non-viral pathological conditions.Human gene (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2023Article
- Is the post-COVID-19 syndrome a severe impairment of acetylcholine-orchestrated neuromodulation that responds to nicotine administration?Bioelectronic medicine · 2023Article
- Markers of oxidative stress during post-COVID-19 fatigue: a hypothesis-generating, exploratory pilot study on hospital employees.Frontiers in medicine · 2023Article
- Long-term effect of COVID-19 infection on hemodialysis patients: Should we follow hemodialysis patients more closely?Clinical kidney journal · 2022Article
- Pain in critically ill COVID-19 patients: An Italian retrospective study.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2022Article
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- Sequelae, persistent symptomatology and outcomes after COVID-19 hospitalization: the ANCOHVID multicentre 6-month follow-up study.BMC medicine · 2021Observational
- Assessment of rehabilitation needs in patients after COVID-19: Development of the COVID-19-rehabilitation needs survey.Journal of rehabilitation medicine · 2021Article
- More Than 50 Long-Term Effects of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Research square · 2021Article
- More than 50 Long-term effects of COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2021Article
- Embitterment as a Specific Mental Health Reaction during the Coronavirus Pandemic.Psychopathology · 2021Article
- Embitterment in the General Population after Nine Months of COVID-19 Pandemic.Psychotherapy and psychosomatics · 2021Article
- Persistence of COVID-19 Symptoms after Recovery in Mexican Population.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- [Evolution and quality of life at three months after hospitalization for COVID pneumonia].RehabilitacionArticle
- Long COVID Mimicking Interstitial Lung Disease: A Case Series.Current health sciences journalArticle
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Abstract
For critically ill COVID-19 patients surviving the acute phase of the disease could possibly only mean having overcome the first stage of a long and challenging path. Physical, cognitive and psychological consequences seem to be realistic; however, do residual symptoms in patients who have returned to microbiological normalization constitute a post-COVID syndrome and which symptoms are principally possible in this context and are able to cause such a syndrome? It is no novelty that critically ill patients often still sustain functional limitations over a long period after discharge from hospital, in many cases even over many years. In most cases of COVID-19 it is too early for the diagnosis of a post-COVID syndrome. For this the symptoms would have to have lasted over a period of at least 6 months; therefore, only a post-infection fatigue can currently be spoken of. On top of this, even if patients recover physically they could be at particular risk of suffering from long-term mental health problems or perceive a reduced quality of life. Such findings exist not only after ARDS as many intensive care unit patients sustain long-term disorders, which is also known as post-intensive care syndrome (PICS). To sum up, there is sufficient evidence for the possible existence of a post-COVID syndrome or for the justification to correspondingly designate these possible sequelae with persisting symptoms in this way. In any case, all efforts that enable a complete functional recovery and a return to a life after corona are justified.
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