Vnitr Lek 2021, 67(1):30-35 | DOI: 10.36290/vnl.2021.004

Follow‑up care after COVID-19 and its related concerns

Martin Radvan^1,6, Elis Bartečků^2,6, Ľubica Sýkorová^3,6, Radana Pařízková^4,6, Svatopluk Richter^5,6, Martin Kameník^1,6, Lumír Koc^1,6, Petr Kala^1,6

¹ Interní kardiologická klinika FN Brno

² Psychiatrická klinika FN Brno

³ Klinika nemocí plicních a tuberkulózy FN Brno

⁴ Infekční klinika FN Brno

⁵ Klinika radiologie a nukleární medicíny FN Brno

⁶ Lékařská fakulta Masarykovy Univerzity

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) (1). Overall COVID-19-related rates of mortality are low; deaths usually occur in patients older than 60 and those suffering from serious chronic diseases. Most of the patients recover within one or two weeks. However, in approximately 5-10 % of the patients some of the symptoms persist for weeks and months. Post-COVID-19 syndrome is a multisystem disease with overlapping symptoms and may occur even in patients who were relatively mildly affected during the acute phase of the disease. Evaluating the number of patients with or after the novel coronavirus infection in the Czech Republic, it can be estimated that in the next months there will be about 50,000 new patients suffering from long-COVID-19 requiring attention of general practitioners in the least, and, in all probability, also of other medical specialists. A thorough knowledge of the syndrome and efficient ideally evidence-based guidelines have to be formulated to combat the adverse impact of the pandemic.

Keywords: COVID-19, SARS‑CoV-2, long‑COVID-19, post‑COVID-19 syndrome, follow‑up.

Published: March 2, 2021  Show citation