Post-infective myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-COVID as two puzzling faces of the same medal. Recent insights

Background:

How much is truly shared in terms of pathogenesis, symptomatology, and disease progression between the myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-COVID, and why have these two very complex conditions recently been grouped under the same umbrella terms?

The 1^st International Conference on Clinical and Scientific Advances of ME/CFS/long COVID”, held in Portugal, on April 3^rd and 4^th 2024 [1], addressed, for the first time, this concern, shedding light onto two highly…

Source: Chirumbolo S, Franzini M, Tirelli U. Post-infective myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and post-COVID as two puzzling faces of the same medal. Recent insights. Int Immunopharmacol. 2025 Mar 7:114365. doi: 10.1016/j.intimp.2025.114365. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40057420. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1567576925003558

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