Publication date: Jun 19, 2024
My personal experience has been [that] most patients receive huge scepticism from the medical profession about long COVID, he told us. An umbrella definition for long COVID was established last week by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), as requested by the United States government. However, some medical professionals say that disputes within the medical community about a disease with so many different symptoms will likely persist. According to Cutler: The names long COVID, or long-haul COVID, or [post-acute COVID syndrome] have now all been labeled long COVID. Share on Pinterest Can a new umbrella-definition of long COVID help healthcare providers diagnose the condition and suggest better treatment avenues? Allder also believed that narrowing a range of symptoms down to one direct cause, often based on a patients own statements, can be problematic. Major conflicts arise from the fact that current definitions rely mainly on the presence of patient self-reported subjective symptoms.
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| April | Allder |
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| Cutler | Consensus |
| Focusdepressionmuscle | Covid |
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| Type | Source | Name |
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| disease | MESH | long COVID |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Tropicamide |
| disease | MESH | infection |
| disease | MESH | chronic condition |
| disease | MESH | SARS-CoV-2 infection |
| pathway | REACTOME | SARS-CoV-2 Infection |
| disease | VO | organ |
| drug | DRUGBANK | Nonoxynol-9 |
| disease | MESH | syndrome |