Queenslanders are flooding GPs practices with heart problems sparked by long Covid, the state’s peak medical body has revealed.
Doctors are seeing more patients with myocarditis and pericarditis due to inflammation caused by the virus that can cause palpitations chest pain or shortness of breath.
Comments closedResearchers increasingly find that the effects of infection by SARS-CoV-2 extend to the cardiovascular system.
Comments closedMore than 5 per cent of adults in Ireland are living with symptoms of long Covid, according to a new survey.
Comments closedMore than half of patients with long Covid suffer from organ damage a year after the initial symptoms, new research suggests.
Even those who were not seriously ill when diagnosed with the virus report problems, with extreme difficulty breathing and cognitive impairment among the persistent symptoms.
The study, the results of which were published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, involved 536 people.
Six months after their initial diagnosis with coronavirus, the patients underwent an MRI scan which revealed ongoing health problems, with 62% of participants suffering from organ damage.
Comments closedEven mild COVID-19 cases can have major and long-lasting effects on people’s health. That is one of the key findings from our recent multicountry study on long COVID-19—or long COVID—recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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