Refining "Long-COVID" by a Prospective Multimodal Evaluation of Patients with Long-Term Symptoms Attributed to SARS-CoV-2 Infection.
Marc ScherlingerRenaud FeltenFloriane GallaisCharlotte NazonEmmanuel ChatelusLuc PijnenburgAmaury MenginAdrien GrasPierre VidailhetRachel Arnould-MichelSabrina Bibi-TrikiRaphaël CarapitoSophie Trouillet-AssantMagali PerretAlexandre BelotSeiamak BahramLaurent ArnaudJacques-Eric GottenbergSamira Fafi-KremerJean SibiliaPublished in: Infectious diseases and therapy (2021)
Half of patients seeking medical help for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome lack SARS-CoV-2 immunity. The presence of SARS-CoV-2 immunity, or not, had no consequence on the clinical or biologic characteristics of post-acute COVID-19 syndrome patients, all of whom reported severe fatigue, altered quality of life and psychologic distress.