A new case study highlights an 81-year-old male who developed Graves’ disease and thyroid storm one week after a COVID-19 diagnosis. This case adds to the somewhat limited reports linking COVID-19 to new-onset Graves’ disease, emphasizing the need for recognizing and promptly treating autoimmune effects post-COVID-19 infection to prevent severe complications.
Read More »An article published in Nature provides the most comprehensive compilation of research on Long Covid to date, discussing what is currently known about its symptoms, prevalence, biomarkers, and disease mechanisms. Because Long Covid does not have a single unifying mechanism, and has such broad multi-systemic symptoms, it likely has a broad range of causes and will likely be classified into separate illnesses in the future.
Read More »Researchers in Sweden used 1.4 million health records to examine the rate of new Celiac disease diagnoses in those who had experienced a COVID-19 infection versus those who had not. Findings suggested that respiratory diseases do not increase the risk of developing Celiac disease the way gastrointestinal infections do.
Read More »In a research letter on long Covid and pulmonary sequelae of COVID-19, authors shared findings around the possibility of viral reservoirs causing prolonged T-cell response in COVID-19 affected patients. The main finding indicated that prolonged infection led to T-cell exhaustion, especially in patients with abnormal lung function and/or structure following a COVID-19 infection.
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