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ArticleCNS neuroscience & therapeutics2021

Chronic long-COVID syndrome: A protracted COVID-19 illness with neurological dysfunctions.

Abdul Mannan Baig

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Article in CNS neuroscience & therapeutics, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.0field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. Issues related to post-COVID-19 syndrome.World journal of methodology · 2022
    Review
  10. Neuroinflammation: 2022 update.Free neuropathology · 2022
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  11. Counting the neurological cost of COVID-19.Nature reviews. Neurology · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Abdul Mannan BaigDepartment of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-0626-216X
Aga Khan University · PK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

After almost a year of COVID-19, the chronic long-COVID syndrome has been recognized as an entity in 2021. The patients with the long-COVID are presenting with ominous neurological deficits that with time are becoming persistent and are causing disabilities in the affected individuals. The mechanisms underlying the neurological syndrome in long-COVID have remained obscure and need to be actively researched to find a resolution for the patients with long-COVID. Here, the factors like site of viral load, the differential immune response, neurodegenerative changes, and inflammation as possible causative factors are debated to understand and investigate the pathogenesis of neuro-COVID in long-COVID syndrome.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansInflammationNervous System DiseasesNeurodegenerative DiseasesPost-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeViral LoadCOVID-19long-COVIDneurological deficitsSARS-CoV-2

Identifiers

PMID34626096
PMCPMC8611765
OpenAlexW3203770275

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