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The previous acute respiratory diseases caused by viruses originating from China or the middle east (e.g., SARS, MERS) remained fast developing short diseases without major sequalae or any long-lasting complications. The new COVID-19, on the other hand, not only that it rapidly spread over the world, but some patients never fully recovered or even if they did, a few weeks later started to complain not only of shortness of breath, if any, but general weakness, muscle pains and 'brain fog', i.e., fuzzy memories. Thus, these signs and symptoms were eventually labelled 'long COVID', for which the most widely used definition is 'new signs and symptoms occurring 4-8 weeks after recovering from acute stage of COVID-19'. The other most frequent manifestations associated with long COVID include headache, loss of memory, smell and of hair, nausea, and vomiting. Thus, long COVID is not a simple disease, but complex disorder of several organ systems malfunctioning; hence, it is probably more appropriate to call this a syndrome. The pathogenesis of long COVID syndrome is poorly understood, but initial and persistent vascular endothelial injury that often triggers the formation of microthrombi t

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Author

Sandor Szabo; Oksana Zayachkivska; Alamdar Hussain; Veronika Muller

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Life Sciences)