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Post-acute infection syndromes (PAISs) or post-infectious syndromes are medical conditions characterized by symptoms attributed to a prior infection. While it is commonly assumed that people either recover or die from infections, long-term symptoms—or sequelae —are a possible outcome as well. [ 1 ]
Long COVID or long-haul COVID is a group of health problems persisting or developing after an initial period of COVID-19 infection. Symptoms can last weeks, months or years and are often debilitating. [ 3] The World Health Organization defines long COVID as starting three months after the initial COVID-19 infection, but other agencies define it ...
Post-acute withdrawal syndrome ( PAWS) is a hypothesized set of persistent impairments that occur after withdrawal from alcohol, [ 1][ 2] opiates, benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and other substances. [ 3][ 4][ 5] Infants born to mothers who used substances of dependence during pregnancy may also experience a PAWS. [ 6][ 7] While PAWS has ...
Alcohol withdrawal syndrome ( AWS) is a set of symptoms that can occur following a reduction in alcohol use after a period of excessive use. [ 1] Symptoms typically include anxiety, shakiness, sweating, vomiting, fast heart rate, and a mild fever. [ 1] More severe symptoms may include seizures, and delirium tremens (DTs); which can be fatal in ...
Acute (medicine) In medicine, describing a disease as acute denotes that it is of recent onset; it occasionally denotes a short duration. The quantification of how much time constitutes "short" and "recent" varies by disease and by context, but the core denotation of "acute" is always qualitatively in contrast with "chronic", which denotes long ...
Acute proliferative glomerulonephritis is a disorder of the small blood vessels of the kidney. It is a common complication of bacterial infections, typically skin infection by Streptococcus bacteria types 12, 4 and 1 ( impetigo ) but also after streptococcal pharyngitis , for which it is also known as postinfectious glomerulonephritis ( PIGN ...
An acute hemolytic transfusion reaction (AHTR), also called immediate hemolytic transfusion reaction, is a life-threatening reaction to receiving a blood transfusion. AHTRs occur within 24 hours of the transfusion and can be triggered by a few milliliters of blood. The reaction is triggered by host antibodies destroying donor red blood cells.
Neurology, Infectious disease. Post-viral cerebellar ataxia also known as acute cerebellitis and acute cerebellar ataxia ( ACA) is a disease characterized by the sudden onset of ataxia following a viral infection. [ 1] The disease affects the function or structure of the cerebellum region in the brain.