Mitochondrial damage as cause of long COVID
Mitochondrial damage as cause of long COVID
Ilduara Pintos-Pascual 1, Vicente Soriano 2
1 Puerta de Hierro University Hospital, Madrid, Spain; 2 UNIR Health Sciences School and Medical Center, Universidad Internacional de La Rioja, Madrid, Spain
*Correspondence: Ilduara Pintos-Pascual, Email not available
Abstract
Although in May 2023, the WHO declared the end of the COVID-19 pandemic as international emergency, about 10% of patients who had suffered SARS-CoV-2 infection complain persistent symptoms/clinical signs. These sequelae are known as long COVID (Davis et al. Nat Rev Microbiol 2023).
