Long-Haul Post-COVID-19 Symptoms Presenting as a Variant of Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome: The Swedish Experience

• Published in: JACC. Case reports Vol. 3; no. 4; pp. 573 - 580
• Main Authors: Johansson, Madeleine, Ståhlberg, Marcus, Runold, Michael, Nygren-Bonnier, Malin, Nilsson, Jan, Olshansky, Brian, Bruchfeld, Judith, Fedorowski, Artur
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier 01.04.2021
• Subjects: Cardiac and Cardiovascular Systems; Cardiology; Cardiology and Cardiovascular Disease; Clinical Medicine; COVID-19; COVID19; Kardiologi; Kardiologi och kardiovaskulära sjukdomar; Klinisk medicin; Medical and Health Sciences; Medicin och hälsovetenskap; Mini-Focus Issue: COVID-19; Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome; complications; POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome; BP, blood pressure; COVID-19, coronavirus disease-2019; autonomic dysfunction; SARS-CoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2; HR, heart rate; orthostatic intolerance; COVID-19 infection; postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome
• ISSN: 2666-0849; 2666-0849
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2021.01.009

Major clinical centers in Sweden have witnessed an inflow of patients with chronic symptoms following initial outpatient care for coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) infection, suggestive of postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome. This report presents the first case series of 3 Swedish patients d...