Email this article COVID-19 and its aftereffect on vestibular function
- Authors: Pimenova V.M.1, Gvozdeva A.P.2, Ryabkova V.A.3, Gavrilova N.Y.4
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Affiliations:
- Municipal Geriatric Medical and Social Center
- Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Issue: Vol 22, No 2 (2022)
- Pages: 229-234
- Section: Conference proceedings
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/MAJ/article/view/108690
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/MAJ108690
- ID: 108690
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: The pandemic has led to a development of various immunological complications of COVID-19 including the chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. These syndromes, which often manifest themselves on a background of autoimmune diseases, may develop with an entrainment of vestibular function into the pathological process.
AIM: Aim of the study was to estimate vestibular function in groups of patients with autoimmune dysfunctions accompanied by the chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia, who have had COVID-19 and those have not had COVID-19 in their anamnesis, and to compare it with vestibular function of healthy volunteers.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A functional investigation of vestibular system called “Vestibular passport” and the anamnesis taking by a standard questionnaire were performed in patients with an implied autoimmune dysfunction and presence of the chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia and/or postural orthostatic tachycardia, and also for a control group of healthy participants.
RESULTS: Patients who have had COVID-19 in their anamnesis demonstrated significantly higher percentage of cases of vestibulopathy than healthy volunteers (33 and 6 %, respectively). In patients without COVID-19 in their anamnesis the percentage of vestibulopathy cases did not differ significantly from the corresponding percentage in healthy volunteers (14 and 6 %, respectively). Patients’ complaints which indicate a vestibular pathology were confirmed in 2/3 of all cases.
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia who have had COVID-19 were more prone to vestibulopathies than patients without COVID-19 in their anamnesis, whose vestibular indices did not differ from that in healthy volunteers. The data obtained shoul be considered as preliminary.
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Vera M. Pimenova
Municipal Geriatric Medical and Social Center
Author for correspondence.
Email: orhideya1984@mail.ru
Surdologist-Otorhinolaryngologist
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgAlisa P. Gvozdeva
Sechenov Institute of Evolutionary Physiology and Biochemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: kukumalu@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7813-731X
SPIN-code: 1225-0090
Scopus Author ID: 56593250700
Cand. Sci. (Biol.), Senior Research Associate
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgVarvara A. Ryabkova
Academician I.P. Pavlov First St. Petersburg State Medical University
Email: varvara-ryabkova@yandex.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6973-9901
SPIN-code: 8991-9240
Scopus Author ID: 57206243519
Clinical Resident
Russian Federation, Saint PetersburgNatalia Yu. Gavrilova
Saint Petersburg State University
Email: fromrussiawithlove_nb@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2957-410X
SPIN-code: 1926-0177
Scopus Author ID: 57223972019
MD, Cand. Sci. (Med.), Neurologist, Assistant of the Department of Faculty Therapy
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