Background acute illnesses, like COVID-19, can act as a catabolic stimulus on muscles. So
far, no study has evaluated muscle mass and quality through limb ultrasound in post-COVID …

Background and Objectives: The loss of muscle mass in post-critical COVID-19 outpatients
is difficult to assess due to the limitations of techniques and the high prevalence of obesity …

Background: The purpose was to investigate the content, construct, and criterion validity of
muscle ultrasound in a mixed cohort of participants recovering from mild and critical COVID …

Background Fatigue and muscle weakness are common complaints in COVID-19 survivors.
However, little is still known about the skeletal muscle qualitative and quantitative …

Background Assessment of muscle quantity by sonographic muscle indices could help
identify patients at risk for fatal outcome during coronavirus disease‐2019 (COVID‐19). The …

Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on muscle strength may help to elucidate the organ
systems that contribute to acute and chronic COVID-19 sequelae. We questioned whether …

Muscle weakness is a prominent symptom in post-acute sequelae of COVID-19 (PASC).
However, few studies have objectively and longitudinally assessed muscle strength after …

Objectives Severe forms of the novel coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) are associated with
systemic inflammation and hypercatabolism. The aims of this study were to compare the time …

COVID-19 caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection is a highly contagious disease affecting both
the higher and lower portions of the respiratory tract. This disease reached over 265 million …

Although the numbers of aged populations have risen considerably in the last few decades,
the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has revealed an extensive vulnerability …