General practitioners should provide the cardiorespiratory rehabilitation’ ‘minimum advice’ for long COVID-19 patients

Libyan Journal of Medicine

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Wafa Benzarti¹  Emna Toulgui²  Christian Prefaut³  Karim Chamari⁴  Helmi Ben Saad⁵ 

[1] Department of Pneumology, Farhat Hached Hospital;Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Sahloul Hospital;Department of Clinical Physiology, Faculty of Medicine of Montpellier, University of Montpellier;Aspetar, Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence;Heart Failure ,(LR12SP09) Research Laboratory, University of Sousse, Farhat Hached Hospital

关键词: Family Physicians;    Guidelines;    Post-Acute Covid;    Pulmonary rehabilitation;    SARS-COV-2;   

DOI  :  10.1080/19932820.2021.2009101

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Co-Action Publishing

【 摘 要 】

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a frequentrespiratory infection disease, as of November 16th,2021, 254728728 COVID-19 infections, and 5125685COVID-19-related deaths (2.01%) had been reportedworldwide (https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/). While the main clinical manifestations ofacute COVID-19 are respiratory symptoms (eg;cough, sputum, and dyspnea), additional cardiac,muscular, and neurologic symptoms/complications(eg; chest pain, myocarditis fatigue, myalgia, myopathy, rhabdomyolysis, paresthesia, severe viral encephalitis) were reported [1]. The issue with the acuteCOVID-19 is that even if patients are cured, 40–90% ofthem continue to experience several medium- tolong-term effects [2]. The latter patients are qualifiedas having a long COVID-19.

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