The influence of the course of the COVID-19 on anxiety levels in patients with post-COVID syndrome.

The COVID-19 is associated not only with symptoms of the acute phase, but in some patients some symptoms persist even after overcoming it, we are talking about the so-called post-COVID syndrome. The aim of our work was to identify factors influencing the level of anxiety in patients with this syn-drome. In total, data were obtained from 404 patients, anxiety levels were assessed using the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). The file con-tained 143 men and 261 women, in the age range of 19-90 years. The average BAI value was 13.2 Most often, patients experienced a mild course of covid-19 infection. According to our results, the severity of the COVID-19 infection itself and the presence of comorbid somatic disease have not effect on the BAI value, on the contrary, hospitalization turned out to be a significant factor. Hospitalized patients had a statistically significantly lower level of anxiety than those who experienced this disease at home. Patients with a pathological level of anxiety were significantly younger and, when comparing gender, there were significantly more anxiety in women. The con-nection between the presence of pulmonary post-inflammatory changes on the chest X-ray and the degree of anxiety was not proven, but a statistically significant trend was found.Copyright © 2023, Czech Medical Association J.E. Purkyne. All rights reserved.

Mania after COVID-19 pneumonia.

COVID-19 is a disease affecting mainly the respiratory system, but the manifestations of the infection can be multi-organs. The effect of this disease on the mental state of patients cannot be neglected. In this case report, we presents the case of a fifteen years old boy who developed manic symptoms after the acute phase of the disease.Copyright © 2023 SOLEN s.r.o.. All rights reserved.