Dr. med. Elisabeth Schieffer Profile picture
Mastodon: @schiefferE@hessen.social MD Cardiology, sports medicine, nutrition, rehabilitation, preventive medicine
Sep 16, 2022 8 tweets 5 min read
Excited to share our paper: „The rational for the treatment of long-covid symptoms- A cardiologist‘s view.“ We suggest a multidimensional approach targeting 3 major regulatory pathways involved in #LongCovid and #postvacsyndrom. /n frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… 1. Target:The renin-angiotensin system (RAS): SARS-CoV-2 - ACE2 binding increases the inflammatory AT1R-Bradykinin/B1R axis, inducing RAS imbalance. Thus there is a rational to use AT1R Blocker (AT1RB), already discussed in our previous paper.. /n. hindawi.com/journals/jraas…