Post COVID syndrome: a new challenge for medicine

Eur Rev Med Pharmacol Sci. 2021 Jun;25(12):4422-4425. doi: 10.26355/eurrev_202106_26154.

Abstract

The huge concern raised by SARS-CoV2 pandemic about public health management and social impact is still under debate, particularly because COVID-19 may affect infected people much longer than expected from a typical air-borne viral disease. The scientific community is actually wondering about the etiopathogenesis and clinical development of this "post-COVID" complex symptomatology, very close to symptoms typically observed in chronic fatigue syndrome, so recently named as "post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC)". This commentary tries to focus on the most recent news about this issue.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19 / complications*
  • COVID-19 / epidemiology
  • COVID-19 / etiology
  • COVID-19 / therapy
  • Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / epidemiology
  • Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / etiology
  • Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic / therapy
  • Humans
  • Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
  • SARS-CoV-2 / isolation & purification
  • Syndrome