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ReviewNaunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology2023

Long COVID could become a widespread post-pandemic disease? A debate on the organs most affected.

Francesco Ferrara, Andrea Zovi, Marta Masi, Roberto Langella, Ugo Trama, Mariarosaria Boccellino, Antonio Vitiello

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Review in Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 7% 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

10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.

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  10. Long COVID as a Tauopathy: Of "Brain Fog" and "Fusogen Storms".International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Francesco FerraraPharmaceutical Department, Asl Napoli 3 Sud, Dell'amicizia street 22, 80035, Nola, Naples, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9298-6783
Andrea ZoviMinistry of Health, Viale Giorgio Ribotta 5, 00144, Rome, Italy. zovi.andrea@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6528-2171
Marta MasiPharmaceutical Department, Asl Napoli 3 Sud, Dell'amicizia street 22, 80035, Nola, Naples, Italy.
Roberto LangellaItalian Society of Hospital Pharmacy (SIFO), SIFO Secretariat of the Lombardy Region, Via Carlo Farini, 81, 20159, Milan, Italy.
Ugo TramaGeneral Direction for Health Protection and Coordination of the Campania Regional Health System, Naples, Italy.
Mariarosaria BoccellinoDepartment of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
Antonio VitielloMinistry of Health, Viale Giorgio Ribotta 5, 00144, Rome, Italy.ORCID 0000-0003-2623-166X
Ministero della Salute · ITRegione Campania · ITRegione LombardiaUniversity of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" · IT

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Long COVID is an emerging problem in the current health care scenario. It is a syndrome with common symptoms of shortness of breath, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and other conditions that have a high impact on daily life. They are fluctuating or relapsing states that occur in patients with a history of SARS-CoV-2 infection for at least 2 months. They are usually conditions that at 3 months after onset cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. Currently very little is known about this syndrome. A thorough review of the literature highlights that the cause is attributable to deposits of tau protein. Massive phosphorylation of tau protein in response to SARS-CoV-2 infection occurred in brain samples from autopsies of people previously affected with COVID-19. The neurological disorders resulting from this clinical condition are termed tauopathies and can give different pathological symptoms depending on the involved anatomical region of the brain. Peripheral small-fiber neuropathies are also evident among patients with Long COVID leading to fatigue, which is the main symptom of this syndrome. Certainly more research studies could confirm the association between tau protein and Long COVID by defining the main role of tau protein as a biomarker for the diagnosis of this syndrome that is widespread in the post-pandemic period.

Indexed as

COVID-19Post-Acute COVID-19 SyndromeFatigueHumansPandemicsSARS-CoV-2tau Proteinstau ProteinsLong COVIDNeurological disordersNeuropathiesPost pandemicProtein tau

Identifiers

PMID36773054
PMCPMC9918819
OpenAlexW4320032942

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