Abstract
| How to understand the overlap of long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis, fibromyalgia and irritable bowel syndromes Semin Arthritis Rheum. 2024 Aug:67:152455. doi: 10.1016/j.semarthrit.2024.152455.Epub 2024 May 7.
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Author information 1Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, United States; Adjunct Faculty, Departments of Medicine and Nursing, Oregon Health Sciences University, United States. Electronic address: dongoldenberg44@gmail.com. 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 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. |
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