5 citations
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January 2024 in “Journal of Primary Care & Community Health” This study observed that the severity of long COVID symptoms varies among patients and sociodemographic and clinical factors affect the likelihood of experiencing symptoms for more than a year. Understanding these factors may optimize management and improve patient outcomes.
2 citations
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January 1986 in “Dermatology” This letter discusses alopecia universalis and Kallman’s Syndrome, and offers no new clinical results.
November 2020 in “Holistic Nursing Practice” This article discusses varied presentations of COVID-19, emphasizing that healthcare professionals should consider less typical symptoms, such as telogen effluvium, anosmia, and COVID toes, in patient assessments.
2 citations
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November 2022 in “Zaporozhye Medical Journal” This review analyzes the wide range of extrapulmonary symptoms in COVID-19, highlighting variations in severity from mild cases with anosmia to severe cases impacting major organs.
This review discusses the varied symptoms and prevalence of long COVID in 20% to 60% of acute COVID-19 patients, emphasizing the lack of clear diagnostic criteria and treatment options, and proposes a functional medicine approach as a potential management strategy.
This study found that BCG injection in COVID-19 convalescent adults reduced long COVID symptoms like hearing and cognitive issues but also led to increased hair loss in women at six months.
October 2023 in “Indian Journal of Ophthalmology - Case Reports” This report details the clinical presentation of an 18-year-old female with Kallmann syndrome, noting her ocular issues and differences in sexual development. The researchers treated her eye conditions cosmetically with superficial keratectomy and amniotic membrane graft, followed by corneal tattooing and strabismus correction.
May 2021 in “Journal of the Endocrine Society” This case report details a diagnosis of adult-onset isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a 23-year-old African American female, highlighting its genetic basis and treatment approach.
17 citations
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September 2024 in “The Indian Journal of Medical Research” This source explores long COVID syndrome and identifies risk factors like older age, female gender, and comorbidities such as diabetes. It mentions potential diagnostic biomarkers, highlights ongoing clinical trials, and emphasizes the importance of vaccines and rehabilitation in managing long COVID.
14 citations
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January 2021 in “Cureus” This study suggests that the AndroCoV clinical scoring system may be a more sensitive and cost-effective tool for diagnosing COVID-19 compared to RT-PCR-SARS-CoV-2 tests, potentially reducing diagnostic delays and false negatives.
11 citations
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December 2020 in “Journal of Drugs in Dermatology” This study reported that COVID-19 skin manifestations, such as exanthema and chilblains, varied in timing but resolved positively with proper treatment.
6 citations
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May 2022 in “Journal of Infection” Long-COVID symptoms can last more than a year and change over time.
5 citations
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May 2020 in “Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology” This article proposes naming the visual identification of androgenic alopecia in COVID-19 patients as the "Gabrin sign" to indicate higher risk for severe symptoms, but reports no new clinical results.
4 citations
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January 2022 in “OAlib” This paper discusses the complex interplay between Long Covid symptoms and various chronic fatigue-related conditions but reports no new clinical findings.
4 citations
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October 2020 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This study reported that more sensitive, early diagnosis and treatment of COVID-19 with drug combinations significantly improved clinical outcomes in males with or without androgenetic alopecia, preventing severe progression.
2 citations
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April 2025 in “BMC Infectious Diseases” According to this study, nearly one-third of the participants experienced Long COVID, highlighting ongoing concerns about the disease's long-term implications despite the pandemic being under control.
1 citations
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January 2023 in “Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira” This article discusses the Guidelines Project by the Brazilian Medical Association, which aims to standardize medical practices and improve doctors' decision-making, but reports no new study results.
1 citations
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April 2022 in “Global health & medicine” This review explores long COVID symptoms in Japan and discusses potential contributing factors, highlighting persistent SARS-CoV-2 infection's role, but reports no new clinical results; it also considers vaccination as a treatment option.
1 citations
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January 2021 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This study found that the AndroCoV Clinical Scoring for COVID-19 Diagnosis may offer a more sensitive and timely diagnostic tool for COVID-19 than conventional rtPCR testing, especially enhancing potential treatment timing.
1 citations
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January 2021 in “medRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)” This study reports that the AndroCoV Clinical Scoring for COVID-19 Diagnosis provides a quicker, more sensitive, and inexpensive alternative to rtPCR-SARS-CoV-2 with an accuracy above 80% in diagnosing COVID-19.
This study concludes that one year after COVID-19 infection, patients in Northeast Brazil showed improvements in quality of life, although some symptoms such as anxiety and memory loss persisted.
December 2020 in “Research Square (Research Square)” This study found that the AndroCoV Clinical Scoring for COVID-19 Diagnosis is a feasible, sensitive, and cost-effective tool with higher accuracy than most rtPCR-SARS-CoV-2 tests for diagnosing COVID-19.
34 citations
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September 2020 in “BMC Endocrine Disorders” This review highlights that while dexamethasone may reduce mortality in severe COVID-19, no other drugs have proven effectiveness for treatment, emphasizing the need for clinical trials of existing medications.
March 2021 in “Revista Colombiana de Cancerología” This report details the first two cancer patients with COVID-19 and co-infection cases at the Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, ESE, and presents their clinical symptoms and complications.
January 2025 in “Current Allergy and Asthma Reports”
198 citations
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April 2020 in “Journal of Endocrinological Investigation” This study found no SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the semen and urine of a COVID-19 patient, suggesting possible viral clearance or absence in these fluids.
56 citations
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May 2021 in “Journal of infection/The Journal of infection” This study found that 80% of hospitalized COVID-19 survivors experienced at least one post-COVID symptom seven months after discharge, with fatigue, hair loss, and dyspnea being the most common.
24 citations
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October 1995 in “The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism/Journal of clinical endocrinology & metabolism” This study found that the LH response to nafarelin effectively distinguished gonadotropin deficiency from constitutional delay of puberty, performing comparably to the sleep test and offering certain advantages.
21 citations
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February 2021 in “BMJ case reports” This case study potentially links the use of anabolic steroids to increased severity of COVID-19 in a healthy 28-year-old man, with marked symptom improvement following treatment with proxalutamide.
18 citations
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April 2021 in “Experimental Dermatology” This study in Italy observed telogen effluvium and trichodynia as common hair-related complications following COVID-19 infection, raising questions about underlying hair follicle biology and potential receptor involvement.