Long-term neurological symptoms after acute COVID-19 illness requiring hospitalization in adult patients

insights from the ISARIC-COVID-19 follow-up study

Battaglini D, White NM, Premraj L, Wanjiru Citarella B, Merson L, Robba C, Thomson D, Cho SM, ISARIC Clinical Characterization Group J Neurol DOI 10.1007/s00415-023-12133-y

Dear Editor: Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has devastated healthcare systems and public health globally. Many patients develop a wide spectrum of persisting or new symptoms 3 months after the acute COVID-19 illness (long-COVID-19), and these symptoms can persist for at least 2 months. There is significant variability in the definitions with the lack of standardization and hence the reported frequency of long-COVID-19 also varies. Furthermore, there is sparser data with a significant heterogeneity on neurological long-COVID-19 symptoms.