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Senior Member (Voting Rights)
Don L Goldenberg,
How to Understand the Overlap of Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndromes,
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism,
2024,
152455,
ISSN 0049-0172,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152455
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049017224000957
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Available online 7 May 2024, 152455
How to Understand the Overlap of Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndromes
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Medicine and Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University
Available online 7 May 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152455 Get rights and content
Abstract
Long COVID should be limited to patients with multiple, persistent symptoms not related to well-defined organ damage.
Once redefined, a focused review of long COVID demonstrates striking similarity to chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), fibromyalgia (FM) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Research in long COVID has revealed similar findings to those in noted in CFS/ME and FM, characterized by central nervous system organ dysfunction.
Long COVID, like CFS/ME, FM and IBS, is best understood as a bidirectional mind-body, neuroimmune illness.
How to Understand the Overlap of Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndromes,
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism,
2024,
152455,
ISSN 0049-0172,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152455
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0049017224000957
Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism
Available online 7 May 2024, 152455
How to Understand the Overlap of Long COVID, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, Fibromyalgia and Irritable Bowel Syndromes
Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Medicine and Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University
Available online 7 May 2024.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152455 Get rights and content
Abstract
Long COVID should be limited to patients with multiple, persistent symptoms not related to well-defined organ damage.
Once redefined, a focused review of long COVID demonstrates striking similarity to chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME), fibromyalgia (FM) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Research in long COVID has revealed similar findings to those in noted in CFS/ME and FM, characterized by central nervous system organ dysfunction.
Long COVID, like CFS/ME, FM and IBS, is best understood as a bidirectional mind-body, neuroimmune illness.