People with a connective tissue disorder may be especially vulnerable to the endothelial damage that characterizes long COVID due to the fragility of their vasculature and slow wound healing

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A growing body of evidence documents the central role that endothelial damage plays in the pathophysiology of long COVID. But it remains unclear why only certain people get Long COVID and why recovery times are so long for many affected individuals. One potential explanation is that some forms of long COVID are experienced disproportionately by people with a connective tissue disorder who are more vulnerable than others to incurring serious damage to the endothelium and the vascular extracellular matrix from the inflammatory processes triggered by COVID-19 and much slower to heal. Further research is needed to explore this hypothesis.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:27

Enthalten in:

Angiogenesis - 27(2024), 2 vom: 06. Apr., Seite 123-124

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lubell, Jeffrey [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Connective tissue disorders
Letter
Long COVID
Post-COVID syndrome
Postacute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2

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Date Completed 17.04.2024

Date Revised 17.04.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10456-024-09908-w

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NLM368087581