Multidisciplinary Management Strategies for Long COVID: A Narrative Review
Christian Prusinski, Dan Yan, Johana Klasová, Kimberly H McVeigh, Sadia Shah, Olga Fermo, Eva Kubrova, Ellen Farr, Linus Williams, Gerardo Gerardo-Manrique, Thomas F. Bergquist, Si M Pham, Erica Engelberg-Cook, Joshua M Hare, Keith L. March, Arnold I. Caplan, Wenchun Qu
Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has caused millions of infections to date and has led to a worldwide pandemic. Most patients had a complete recovery from the acute infection, however, a large number of the affected individuals experienced symptoms that persisted more than 3 months after diagnosis. These symptoms most commonly include fatigue, memory difficulties, brain fog, dyspnea, cough, and other less common ones such as headache, chest pain, paresthesias, mood changes, muscle pain, and weakness, skin rashes, and cardiac, endocrine, renal and hepatic manifestations. The treatment of this syndrome remains challenging. A multidisciplinary approach to address combinations of symptoms affecting multiple organ systems has been widely adopted. This narrative review aims to bridge the gap surrounding the broad treatment approaches by providing an overview of multidisciplinary management strategies for the most common long COVID conditions.