What do we know about post-COVID syndrome: a bibliographic review

Abstract

Introduction: Currently, the pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has created a new concern in the health system, due to long-term systemic manifestations in patients who have been with this disease, defining it as a post-COVID-19 syndrome in 2020, given the persistence of symptoms requiring management that includes various specialties that give relief to the different discomforts manifested by the patient.  Objective: This article is conducted to know and describe about the post-COVID-19 syndrome with updated and useful information for the knowledge of health personnel who face this pathology. Methodology: A search was conducted in databases such as: MEDLINE/Pubmed, Google scholar, Springer, where information on this topic is found. Results: It is a pathology that presents a wide repertoire of symptoms that involves different organs which will depend on certain risk factors and the complications it had during the pathological process. There are biomarkers that in the future may become the gold standard for the diagnosis of post-COVID-19 syndrome, which will allow to verify the functioning of the organs that have been affected. Current studies propose beneficial therapies such as respiratory rehabilitation whose objective is to improve lung function. Discussion: At present it is not yet fully known the pathophysiological process by which persistent symptoms occur, however, studies show the probable causes and clinical picture that predispose to this disease, the same that will be attended at the first level of care and provide symptomatic treatment. Conclusion: The revolution in the health system caused by SARS-CoV-2 again evaluates the capacity of health professionals, so research describes this phenomenon as a post-COVID-19 syndrome.