Findings from Mayo Clinic's post-COVID clinic: PASC phenotypes vary by sex and degree of IL-6 elevation

MS Durstenfeld, PY Hsue… - Mayo Clinic …, 2022 - mayoclinicproceedings.org
Asignificant proportion of individuals suffer from persistent symptoms after acute infection
with SARS-CoV-2. This syndrome, called long COVID by patient advocates, has been
named post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC) by the National Institutes of Health. The
World Health Organization developed a clinical case definition that includes (1) history of
probable or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection with onset at least 3 months earlier and (2)
symptoms that last for at least 2 months that cannot be explained by an alternative …