Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a new tsunami requiring a universal case definition

Gema M Lledó; Jacobo Sellares; Carlos Brotons; Mireia Sans; Juana Díez Antón; Julià Blanco; Quique Bassat; Adelaida Sarukhan; José M Miró; Silvia de Sanjosé; Multidisciplinary Collaborative Group for the Scientific Monitoring of COVID-19 (GCMSC)

doi:10.1016/j.cmi.2021.11.015

Post-acute COVID-19 syndrome: a new tsunami requiring a universal case definition

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2022 Mar;28(3):315-318. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2021.11.015. Epub 2021 Nov 24.

Collaborators

Multidisciplinary Collaborative Group for the Scientific Monitoring of COVID-19 (GCMSC):
Silvia de Sanjosé¹¹, Josep M Miró¹², Quique Bassat¹³, Magda Campins¹⁴, Robert Guerri¹⁵, Carles Brotóns¹⁶, Juana Díez¹⁷, Julià Blanco¹⁸, Mireia Sans¹⁹, Adelaida Sarukhan²⁰, Antoni Plasència²⁰, Josep M Antó²⁰

Affiliations

¹ Department of Autoimmune Diseases, University of Barcelona, Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
² Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Hospital Clínic-Institut D'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
³ Sardenya Primary Health Care Centre, Biomedical Research Institute Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Comte Borrell Health Care Centre, CAPSBE, Metges e-Salut, COMB, International University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
⁵ Molecular Virology Group, Department of Experimental and Health Sciences, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.
⁶ IrsiCaixa AIDS Research Institute, Germans Trias I Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), Can Ruti Campus, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain; University of Vic (UVic-UCC), Vic, Catalonia, Spain.
⁷ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigação Em Saúde de Manhiça (CISM), Maputo, Mozambique; ICREA, Pg. Lluís Companys 23, Barcelona, Spain; Paediatrics Department, Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Universitat de Barcelona, Esplugues, Barcelona, Spain; Consorcio de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Madrid, Spain.
⁸ University of Vic (UVic-UCC), Vic, Catalonia, Spain.
⁹ Infectious Diseases Service, Hospital Clinic-IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: jmmiro@ub.edu.
¹⁰ ISGlobal, Hospital Clínic, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: desanjose.silvia@gmail.com.
¹¹ NCI, Spain.
¹² Hospital Clínic - IDIBAPS, University of Barcelona, Spain.
¹³ ICREA researcher at ISGlobal, Spain.
¹⁴ Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Spain.
¹⁵ Hospital del Mar, Spain.
¹⁶ EAP Sardenya, Spain.
¹⁷ CEXS, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain.
¹⁸ IrsiCaixa-IGHTP, Spain.
¹⁹ CAP Borrell, Spain.
²⁰ ISGlobal, Spain.

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Keywords: Coronavirus disease 2019; Long COVID; Post-acute coronavirus disease 2019 syndrome; Sequelae; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.

MeSH terms

COVID-19* / complications
COVID-19* / diagnosis
Humans
Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
SARS-CoV-2*