05.08.2023 | Correspondence
Long COVID: the time has come for globally acceptable definitions
verfasst von:
Chokan Baimukhamedov, Khilola Mirakhmedova, Gulzhan Dossybayeva
Erschienen in:
Rheumatology International
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Ausgabe 11/2023
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Excerpt
The COVID-19 pandemic and related vaccination campaigns have triggered the development of new autoimmune syndromes and diseases and severed the course of established rheumatic diseases. Viral persistence, combined with uncontrolled inflammation and the production of various autoimmune antibodies in COVID-19 survivors, has resulted in systemic vascular affections with dysfunction of multiple organ systems [
1,
2]. Lasting joint pain, myalgia, and fatigue have been frequently reported within 6 months after acute COVID-19 and characterized as the main musculoskeletal manifestations of long COVID [
3]. Cases of post-COVID inflammatory arthritis have been reported as new forms of reactive arthritis [
4], though the same cases could be correctly characterized as virally-mediated arthritis [
5]. COVID-19-associated arthritis itself can be a part of long COVID. …