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Chronic fatigue syndrome: an emerging sequela in COVID-19 survivors?
- Source :
- Journal of Neurovirology
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- SARS-CoV-2 survivors may report persistent symptoms that resemble myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). We explored (a) ME/CFS-like symptom prevalence and (b) whether axonal, inflammatory, and/or lung changes may contribute to ME/CFS-like symptoms in SARS-CoV-2 survivors through clinical, neuropsychiatric, neuropsychological, lung function assessment, and serum neurofilament light chain, an axonal damage biomarker. ME/CFS-like features were found in 27% of our sample. ME/CFS-like group showed worse sleep quality, fatigue, pain, depressive symptoms, subjective cognitive complaints, Borg baseline dyspnea of the 6-min walking test vs. those without ME/CFS-like symptoms. These preliminary findings raise concern on a possible future ME/CFS-like pandemic in SARS-CoV-2 survivors.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
Neurology
Short Communication
Encephalomyelitis
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Cognition
Virology
Internal medicine
Prevalence
medicine
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Humans
Fatigue
Aged
Fatigue Syndrome, Chronic
Lung
SARS-CoV-2
business.industry
Neuropsychology
COVID-19
virus diseases
Sequela
Middle Aged
Functional neurological disorders
medicine.disease
nervous system diseases
respiratory tract diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Viral infection
Mood alterations
Biomarker (medicine)
Female
Neurology (clinical)
business
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15382443 and 13550284
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of NeuroVirology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....13a43639e17b3d650e9f51b237befd8d