Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis share similar pathophysiologic mechanisms of exercise limitation
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| author | Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard |
| author_facet | Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard |
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| contents | Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis share similar pathophysiologic mechanisms of exercise limitation Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard Physiological Reports AbstractPost‐acute sequelae of SARS‐CoV‐2 (PASC or “long COVID”) and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis (CFS/ME) share symptoms such as exertional dyspnea. We used exercise oxygen pathway analysis, comprising six parameters of oxygen transport and utilization, to identify limiting mechanisms in both conditions. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing was performed on 15 PASC patients, 11 CFS/ME patients, and 11 controls. We evaluated the contributions of alveolar ventilation (V̇a), lung diffusion capacity (DL ), cardiac output (Q̇), skeletal muscle diffusion capacity (DM ), hemoglobin (Hb), and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (Vmax) to peak oxygen consumption (V̇O2peak). To simulate targeted interventions, each variable was sequentially normalized to assess its impact on V̇O2peak. V̇O2peak was significantly reduced in both PASC and CFS/ME compared to controls. Skeletal muscle O2 diffusion (DM ) was the most impaired parameter in both patient groups (p = 0.01). Correcting DM alone improved V̇O2 by 66% in PASC (p = 0.008) and 34.7% in CFS/ME (p = 0.06), suggesting a dominant role for peripheral O2 extraction in exercise limitation. Impaired skeletal muscle oxygen diffusion (DM ) is a shared mechanism of exercise intolerance in PASC and CFS/ME and may represent a therapeutic target. However, our findings are limited by small sample size. 10.14814/phy2.70535 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
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| spellingShingle | Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis share similar pathophysiologic mechanisms of exercise limitation Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard Physiological Reports Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis share similar pathophysiologic mechanisms of exercise limitation Swathi Jothi Michael Insel Guido Claessen Saad Kubba Erin J. Howden Sergio Ruiz‐Carmona Todd Levine Franz P. Rischard Physiological Reports AbstractPost‐acute sequelae of SARS‐CoV‐2 (PASC or “long COVID”) and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis (CFS/ME) share symptoms such as exertional dyspnea. We used exercise oxygen pathway analysis, comprising six parameters of oxygen transport and utilization, to identify limiting mechanisms in both conditions. Invasive cardiopulmonary exercise testing was performed on 15 PASC patients, 11 CFS/ME patients, and 11 controls. We evaluated the contributions of alveolar ventilation (V̇a), lung diffusion capacity (DL ), cardiac output (Q̇), skeletal muscle diffusion capacity (DM ), hemoglobin (Hb), and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation (Vmax) to peak oxygen consumption (V̇O2peak). To simulate targeted interventions, each variable was sequentially normalized to assess its impact on V̇O2peak. V̇O2peak was significantly reduced in both PASC and CFS/ME compared to controls. Skeletal muscle O2 diffusion (DM ) was the most impaired parameter in both patient groups (p = 0.01). Correcting DM alone improved V̇O2 by 66% in PASC (p = 0.008) and 34.7% in CFS/ME (p = 0.06), suggesting a dominant role for peripheral O2 extraction in exercise limitation. Impaired skeletal muscle oxygen diffusion (DM ) is a shared mechanism of exercise intolerance in PASC and CFS/ME and may represent a therapeutic target. However, our findings are limited by small sample size. 10.14814/phy2.70535 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| title | Long COVID and chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalitis share similar pathophysiologic mechanisms of exercise limitation |
| topic | Physiological Reports |
| url | https://physoc.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.14814/phy2.70535 |