Since the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has the world under control. The course of infection can either take a patient to the Intensive Care Unit or be unremarkable. Dissociated from the severity of the primary illness, the long-term consequences of COVID-19 emerge as unpredictable, dangerous, and able to target a variety of organs. These long-term consequences are also known as a post-COVID-19 syndrome, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), chronic COVID syndrome (CCS), or simply long COVID. Science is only at the beginning of recognizing the epidemiological extend and economic and healthcare impact of long COVID. Medicine is only at the beginning of understanding which human organs and systems can be affected by long COVID and why. Still, we see an alarming increase in reporting the otoneurological consequences of long COVID, such as tinnitus, vertigo, and sudden hearing loss, even at this early stage.
This Research Topic aims to collect evidence on how long COVID impacts the onset or pre-existing neurotological diseases. Further, it should help understand the mechanisms of neurotological long COVID, with a long-haul goal of developing the protective and curative means. The medical reports, including the case studies, are anticipated to identify the risk factors predisposing to post-COVID tinnitus, vertigo, or sudden hearing loss. Moreover, the scientific evidence submitted to this Research Topic will help to determine if the neurotological disorders caused by long COVID have distinguishing features that separate them from the non-long COVID conditions. The basic science reports are expected to provide the insights on more focused research questions. Together, we hope that the research submitted in the following months to this Research Topic will unveil at least part of the long COVID mystery.
The Guest Editors of “Neurotological consequences of long COVID” will welcome the following types of manuscripts: Original Research, Brief Research Report, Mini Review, Systematic Review, Hypothesis and Theory, Opinion and Protocol. The submissions should regard, but are not restricted to, one of the following issues:
• Epidemiology of neurotological conditions among long COVID patients
• Characterization of neurotological conditions among long COVID patients
• Changes in pre-existing tinnitus or tinnitus-induced disorder during long COVID
• Changes in pre-existing vertigo during long COVID
• Contribution (direct and indirect) of COVID-19 to neurodegeneration
• Long COVID and neuroinflammation in neurotology
Since the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic has the world under control. The course of infection can either take a patient to the Intensive Care Unit or be unremarkable. Dissociated from the severity of the primary illness, the long-term consequences of COVID-19 emerge as unpredictable, dangerous, and able to target a variety of organs. These long-term consequences are also known as a post-COVID-19 syndrome, post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC), chronic COVID syndrome (CCS), or simply long COVID. Science is only at the beginning of recognizing the epidemiological extend and economic and healthcare impact of long COVID. Medicine is only at the beginning of understanding which human organs and systems can be affected by long COVID and why. Still, we see an alarming increase in reporting the otoneurological consequences of long COVID, such as tinnitus, vertigo, and sudden hearing loss, even at this early stage.
This Research Topic aims to collect evidence on how long COVID impacts the onset or pre-existing neurotological diseases. Further, it should help understand the mechanisms of neurotological long COVID, with a long-haul goal of developing the protective and curative means. The medical reports, including the case studies, are anticipated to identify the risk factors predisposing to post-COVID tinnitus, vertigo, or sudden hearing loss. Moreover, the scientific evidence submitted to this Research Topic will help to determine if the neurotological disorders caused by long COVID have distinguishing features that separate them from the non-long COVID conditions. The basic science reports are expected to provide the insights on more focused research questions. Together, we hope that the research submitted in the following months to this Research Topic will unveil at least part of the long COVID mystery.
The Guest Editors of “Neurotological consequences of long COVID” will welcome the following types of manuscripts: Original Research, Brief Research Report, Mini Review, Systematic Review, Hypothesis and Theory, Opinion and Protocol. The submissions should regard, but are not restricted to, one of the following issues:
• Epidemiology of neurotological conditions among long COVID patients
• Characterization of neurotological conditions among long COVID patients
• Changes in pre-existing tinnitus or tinnitus-induced disorder during long COVID
• Changes in pre-existing vertigo during long COVID
• Contribution (direct and indirect) of COVID-19 to neurodegeneration
• Long COVID and neuroinflammation in neurotology
