Fallvignetten aus der neurologischen Rehabilitation bei Patienten mit Post-COVID-Syndrom

Abstract

Case vignettes from neurological rehabilitation in patients with post-COVID syndrome – Suggested discussion for performance diagnosticsC. Dettmers, C. Weich, C. Herrmann, R. Saile, M. Preuss, S. H. Chanyalew, L. Schleicher, D. Klaasen van Husen, J. Randerath, S. Stoll, M. Tempfli, M. Vieten, M. JöbgesAbstractSecondary illness after a previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 covers a wide spectrum in terms of organ damage, symptoms, duration, course and, above all, the severity of the disease. In patients who have been ventilated for a long time in an intensive care unit, one will look very carefully for lung damage and other organ damage, including cerebral, peripheral neurogenic and myogenic damage, and clarify to what extent the remaining deficits can be attributed to this. At the other end of the spectrum are patients who were not hospitalized during the primary infection, for whom fatigue, headache, muscle, limb or other symptoms are in the foreground and whose symptoms often fluctuate in intensity over the course of the disease. For employees in the health sector, a primary infection acquired at work may be recognized as an occupational disease. Subsequent complaints are often subsumed under “post-COVID” by the patient and then also by the attending physician, without proving a causal connection to COVID-19. We present individual case studies from this specific and non-representative group. We were surprised that there were many psy-chological, psychosomatic and psychiatric comorbidities. In the second part we present our diagnostics for cognitive, emotional and motor fatigue and fati-gability. Particularly in this initially non-hospitalized patient group, a thorough somato-psychological differential diagnosis is required in order to determine the causes and the socio-psychosomatic set of conditions. An identification of the different components within the post-COVID complaint complex should enable the most efficient therapy possible in order to initiate reintegration into social life in everyday life and at work. Keywords: Post-COVID syndrome, comorbidity, psychosomatics, fatigue, fatigability, differential diagnostics