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In April this year the University Clinical Hospital located at 49 Przybyszewskiego St. has opened a new specialist outpatient health care office dedicated to treating patients suffering from long-term neurological symptoms of having contracted CoViD-19.

This new healthcare service has been initiated by prof. Sławomir Michalak and dr. Joanna Rybacka-Mossakowska with the support of the director of the hospital in response to a growing number of symptoms related to central and periferal nervous system reported by persons recovering from CoViD-19 ("long CoViD"). As many as 84% of people affected by the disease develop symptoms related to the acute phase of the infection, including: loss of smell and taste, neurological deficits caused by cerebral ischemia, thrombosis of the venous sinus of the brain (speech disorders, pareses) or autoimmune inflammatory poliradiculoneuropathy (e.g. Guillain-Barré syndrome). After the disease subsides, patients suffer from disorders of concentration or memory (the so-called "brain fog"), headaches, muscle pains, or neuropathy/polineuropathy. Specialist care aims to ease those symptoms and restore, or at least improve, the everyday activity and well-being of the patients.

Patients are welcome on Tuesdays between 1 and 4pm by referral from general physician.