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Post-COVID-19 Syndrome Comprehensive Assessment: From Clinical Diagnosis to Imaging and Biochemical-Guided Diagnosis and Management

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VIRUSES-BASEL
卷 15, 期 2, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/v15020533

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long COVID-19 syndrome; post-COVID-19 syndrome; diagnosis; assessment; review

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The COVID-19 outbreak in 2019 caused a significant number of illnesses and deaths. Many COVID-19 survivors develop Post-COVID-19 Syndrome (PC19S) of varying severity. Currently, the diagnosis of PC19S relies on subjective reporting and lacks a unified diagnostic assessment tool, making patient management and rehabilitation planning difficult.
The COVID-19 outbreak was first reported in 2019, causing massive morbidity and mortality. The majority of the COVID-19 patients survived and developed Post-COVID-19 Syndrome (PC19S) of varying severity. Currently, the diagnosis of PC19S is achieved through history and symptomatology that cannot be explained by an alternative diagnosis. However, the heavy reliance on subjective reporting is prone to reporting errors. Besides, there is no unified diagnostic assessment tool to classify the clinical severity of patients. This leads to significant difficulties when managing patients in terms of public resource utilization, clinical progression monitorization and rehabilitation plan formulation. This narrative review aims to review current evidence of diagnosis based on triple assessment: clinical symptomatology, biochemical analysis and imaging evidence. Further assessment tools can be developed based on triple assessment to monitor patient's clinical progression, prognosis and intervals of monitoring. It also highlights the high-risk features of patients for closer and earlier monitoring. Rehabilitation programs and related clinical trials are evaluated; however, most of them focus on cardiorespiratory fitness and psychiatric presentations such as anxiety and depression. Further research is required to establish an objective and comprehensive assessment tool to facilitate clinical management and rehabilitation plans.

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