Category: Clinical Considerations
New Guidance Focuses on Long COVID in Kids
Med Page Today – When it comes to long COVID in children, physicians should focus on mitigating symptoms and encouraging multidisciplinary rehabilitation designed to improve age-appropriate development, according to new clinical guidance from the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (AAPM&R). Long COVID can present differently in children, so standard practices for managing the […]
Sep 29, 2022
Study aims to understand how SARS-CoV-2 affects the brain long-term
Medical News – In addition to the lungs, COVID-19 also affects the central nervous system (CNS) through anoxic, viral neurotoxicity, inflammation, and cerebrovascular mechanisms. As a result, about one-third of COVID-19 patients develop different neurologic problems, such as seizures, loss of sense of smell or taste, and stroke. Related study in Translational Research and Clinical Interventions
Sep 29, 2022
CDC/IDSA Clinician Call: Updates & Emerging Issues on COVID-19 and Monkeypox
IDSA – Link to download slides Topic: Updates & Emerging Issues on COVID-19 and Monkeypox Moderator:Dana S. Wollins, DrPH, MGCVice President, Clinical Affairs & Practice Guidelines, IDSA Topics and Featured Experts COVID-19: Situation Update, Emerging Variants & Implications for Therapeutics:Pragna Patel, MD, MPHCaptain, U.S. Public Health ServiceChief Medical Officer (acting)Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Diseases Division […]
Sep 27, 2022
Covid-19 Associated With 72% Greater Risk Of Type 1 Diabetes Among Children, Study Shows
Forbes – Still think that getting Covid-19 is no big deal for children? Well, there’s been growing evidence that Covid-19 could hit you right in the pancreas. And a study just published as a research letter in JAMA Network furthered the possibility that Covid-19 may somehow lead to type 1 diabetes. Since type 1 diabetes results when the […]
Sep 27, 2022
Omicron subvariants linked to reinfections
CIDRAP – A new study based on COVID-19 patients in France shows high reinfection rates among people with different Omicron subvariants, including BA.1, BA.2, and BA.5. The study is published as a research letter in Emerging Infectious Diseases. The research group conducting this study, from Aix Marseille University, previously found reinfection rates were 6-fold higher during […]
Sep 27, 2022
A practical update on the management of patients with COVID–19
Royal College of Physicians – While vaccines against COVID-19 are being rolled out, an ongoing need remains for therapies to treat patients who have symptomatic COVID-19 before vaccination or in whom breakthrough infection develops. Dexamethasone and interleukin-6 inhibitors have been the mainstay of treatment for severe to critical COVID-19 requiring hospitalisation. However, in the previous […]
Sep 27, 2022
Still Short of Breath? Here Are 3 Ways COVID-19 Can Damage Lungs Long Term
Science Alert – As pulmonologists and critical care doctors treating patients with lung disease, we have heard many of our patients recovering from COVID-19 tell us this even months after their initial diagnosis. Though they may have survived the most life-threatening phase of their illness, they have yet to return to their pre-COVID-19 baseline, struggling with activities ranging from strenuous […]
Sep 26, 2022
How COVID-19 stole our sense of smell
Chemical Engineering News – SARS-CoV-2 has left thousands with a distorted or lost sense of smell. This population is helping researchers identify what happens when smell goes wrong and what might help. Researchers are getting a clearer idea of how. This understanding and a growing awareness of olfactory disorders could help others facing smell loss […]
Sep 26, 2022
How smallpox and monkeypox viruses affect the nervous system
Medical News.Net – Several pandemics have emerged over the past few decades due to the emergence of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), as well as Dengue, Zika, Ebola, and West Nile viruses. Most recently, the emergence of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) led to the coronavirus […]
Sep 26, 2022
Some kids, teens have long-term lung damage after COVID-19
CIDRAP – Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) reveals lung damage in nonhospitalized children and teens who either had COVID-19 up to a year earlier or have long-COVID symptoms, according to a single-center clinical trial published this week in Radiology. Researchers in Germany evaluated changes in lung structure and function in 54 pediatric COVID-19 survivors and nine healthy controls aged […]
Sep 23, 2022