INFLUENCE OF THE COURSE OF ACUTE COVID-19 INFECTION ON THE COURSE OF POST-COVID SYNDROME
- Authors: Dobrynina M.A.1, Zurochka V.A.1, Zurochka A.V.1
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Affiliations:
- Federal Budgetary Institution of Science «Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections «Virome» Federal Service for Surveillance on Costumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Yekaterinburg
- Section: Forum Sochi 2025
- Submitted: 23.06.2025
- Accepted: 30.06.2025
- URL: https://rusimmun.ru/jour/article/view/17286
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.46235/1028-7221-17286-IOT
- ID: 17286
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The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus has resulted in global morbidity and high mortality worldwide. According to case histories, for a long time (from six months to 2-3 years) after acute COVID-19 infection, patients experience severe fatigue, increased fatigue, an increase in the incidence of acute respiratory viral infections per year, an increase in the recurrence of skin diseases, allergies, exacerbation of pulmonary pathology, urinary tract diseases, an increase in the recurrence of chronic infectious diseases such as herpesvirus and papillomavirus infections, and an aggravation of chronic cardiovascular and other somatic diseases of various organs and systems. Patients were examined at least six months after recovery from acute COVID-19. Such persistent post-infectious consequences are known as post-COVID syndrome. When assessing post-COVID syndrome, it is necessary to identify the main clinical syndromes of multiorgan pathology characteristic of post-COVID patients. Endocrine and cardiac manifestations of post-COVID syndrome can be a consequence of direct damage by the virus, immunological and inflammatory damage, as well as iatrogenic complications.
Objective of the study: to assess the impact of the severity of acute COVID-19 on the course of post-COVID syndrome.
Research objectives:
- To analyze the severity of clinical manifestations of the symptom complex of cardiovascular damage in post-COVID patients depending on the degree of lung damage in the acute period of COVID-19.
- To analyze the severity of clinical manifestations of endocrine system pathology, including newly diagnosed, in post-COVID patients depending on the degree of lung damage in the acute period of COVID-19. Since no statistically significant differences by gender and age were found, all patients were divided into groups by the degree of lung damage in the acute period of COVID-19 according to clinical guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of a new coronavirus infection:
This study showed that the clinical picture of post-COVID syndrome is characterized by a pronounced diversity of the formation of multiple organ pathology, both newly diagnosed and manifested in an increase in the frequency of exacerbations of chronic diseases.
About the authors
Mariya Alexandrovna Dobrynina
Federal Budgetary Institution of Science «Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections «Virome» Federal Service for Surveillance on Costumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Yekaterinburg
Email: mzurochka@mail.ru
PhD, MD, Researcher, laboratory ofimmunopathophysiology, Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg; Senior Researcher, Laboratory of Transmissible Viral Diseases, FBISFederal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections "VIROM" Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Consumption, Yekaterinburg;assistant professor of the Department of Therapy of the University of Innovation and Continuing Education of the State Research Center –Burnazyan Federal Medical Biophysical Center of Federal Medical Biological Agency, Moscow, Russia
Russian FederationVladimir Alexandrovich Zurochka
Federal Budgetary Institution of Science «Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections «Virome» Federal Service for Surveillance on Costumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Yekaterinburg
Email: v_zurochka@mail.ru
D.Sc. MD, senior researcher,laboratory ofimmunopathophysiology, Institute of Immunology and Physiology, Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences,Ekaterinburg; senior researcher, laboratory of immunobiotechnology, Russian-Chinese Center, South Ural State University (NRU),Chelyabinsk, Russia
Russian FederationAlexandr Vladimirovich Zurochka
Federal Budgetary Institution of Science «Federal Scientific Research Institute of Viral Infections «Virome» Federal Service for Surveillance on Costumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing, Yekaterinburg
Author for correspondence.
Email: av_zurochka@mail.ru
honored worker of science of the Russian Federation, D.Sc. MD, professor, leading researcher, laboratory of immunopathophysiology, Institute of Immunology and Physiology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ekaterinburg; head of laboratory of immunobiotechnology of the Russian-Chinese Center of South Ural State University (NRU),Chelyabinsk, Russia
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