The Clinical Manifestation of Post Covid-19 Syndrome among Basra City Population-Southern of Iraq

Abstract

Post COVID is a range of symptoms that can last weeks or months after first being infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 or can appear weeks after infection. Post COVID syndrome can happen to anyone who has had COVID-19, even if the illness was mild, or they had no symptoms. People with long COVID report experiencing different combinations of the following symptoms: Tiredness or fatigue, Difficulty thinking or concentrating, Headache, Loss of smell or taste, Dizziness on standing, Fast-beating, Chest pain, shortness of breath, Cough, Joint or muscle pain, Depression or anxiety, Fever, Symptoms that get worse after physical or mental activities, A cross sectional study was done on 350 patients with documented diagnosis of COVID-19 either by PCR or Radiologicallywhom were admitted at Al-Basra Teaching Hospital after they diagnosed with Covid-19 and then discharged from the hospital after days to weeks as they have been fully recovered and ask them about the manifestation of post covid-19 syndrome. The study concludes that the occurrence of post-covid 19 syndromeis a common sequalae following the acute infection and it was present in more than 60 % of the cases involve in the study, it was more common among females and middle-aged patient but not too much difference in relation to the presence of comorbidities, it also more common wafter sever illness and long duration of hospitalization.