ABSTRACT
Post-COVID syndrome has directly affected quality of life, reduced individual health status and it also could bring slow return to work and to routine activities of daily life. Objective(s): The aim of this study was to assess the impact of moderate to severe COVID-19 infection on work return, physical activity, and persistent symptoms 6 months after hospitalization. Method(s): We included 94 patients referred to the post-COVID outpatient clinic, who were hospitalized by COVID-19 with pulmonary involvement and requirement of O2 supplementation. A survey was applied by telephone after 6 months of hospitalization. Result(s): The mean age was 52+/-13yrs and 63% was male. 48% were admitted in the ICU. Among the patients who answered the survey (n=70), 54 patients (77%) reported post-discharge physical activity and 54.2% maintained a training frequency of 2 to 3 times or more per week. Except one, all patients that became asymptomatic performed exercises after discharge (n = 18/19). Regarding job, 62 patients worked before COVID-19 infection and all of them returned to their activities. Although back to work, 64.2% reported low energy or fatigue throughout the workday after 6 months. It was also reported a persistence of other symptoms by 73% of patients, mainly: memory loss (41%), myalgia (40%), fatigue (37%) and dyspnea (24%). Conclusion(s): After COVID19 hospitalization, patients managed to get back to work but two-thirds of them with impairments related particularly to low energy or fatigue during the day. Perform regular exercises could improve symptoms and help to decrease the impact of COVID19 in work activities.
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Many patients hospitalized with COVID-19 were unable to return to work or their return was delayed due to their health condition. The aim of this observational study was to evaluate the impact of moderate-to-severe and critical COVID-19 infection on persistence of symptoms and return to work after hospital discharge. In this study, two thirds of hospitalized patients with pulmonary involvement reported persistence of symptoms six months after COVID-19 infection, such as memory loss (45.5%), myalgia (43.9%), fatigue (39.4%), and dyspnea (25.8%), and 50% slowly returned to work, with repercussions due to fatigue and/or loss of energy. Copyright © 2022.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected a large number of patients in all countries, overwhelming healthcare systems worldwide. In this scenario, surgical procedures became restricted, causing unacceptable delays in the treatment of certain pathologies, such as glioblastoma. Regarding this tumor with high morbidity and mortality, early surgical treatment is essential to increase the survival and quality of life of these patients. Association between COVID-19 and neurosurgical procedures is quite scarce in the literature, with a few reported cases. In the present study, we present a rare case of a patient undergoing surgical resection of glioblastoma with COVID-19.