What is your approach to long-Covid/post-Covid syndrome in your practice?
Community PollStarted
Do you provide follow up for patients with long covid in the absence of underlying rheumatologic disease?
1 physician has voted
Join Mednetto vote and see how they answered.
2 Answers
Mednet MemberInvited Expert
Rheumatology · UTMB Health
Answered on
Many academic medical centers, including ours, have opened post-COVID clinics, and they are not necessarily managed by rheumatologists nor perhaps they should be. I agree that the symptoms are quite similar to fibromyalgia although, true post-COVID-19 medical problems may well be inflammatory, and f...
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer
Mednet MemberInvited Expert
Rheumatology · Tufts University School of Medicine
Answered on
Although I no longer see patients, I continue to do clinical research, including on post-COVID syndrome, and have authored a book on this topic, which is being published by Oxford Press that should be available within the next month.
First off, I would think that rheumatologists would be referred a p...
Join for free or sign in to see the full answer