Table-2.
Proposed classification of post COVID-19 syndrome.
| A. Symptoms related to organ dysfunctions |
| 1. Symptoms related to various sequelae of COVID-19 |
| a. New onset diabetes |
| b. Kidney dysfunction |
| c. Pulmonary symptoms related to fibrosis |
| d. Cardiac dysfunction |
| e. Hepatic dysfunction |
| f. Neurological dysfunction |
| g. Sarcopenia |
| 2. Symptoms related to co-morbidity present before COVID-19 (renal, cardiac, diabetes, hepatic, pulmonary, neurological etc) |
| a. Status of the co-morbidity same as before COVID-19 |
| b. Status of the co-morbidity worsened after COVID-19 |
| 3. Symptoms related to acute complications of the co-morbidity and or COVID-19 |
| a. Diabetic ketoacidosis |
| b. Myocardial infarction |
| c. Stroke |
| d. Pulmonary embolism/thrombosis in other body areas |
| B. Symptoms related to hospitalisation and its consequences: drug therapy, concomitant and subsequent infections, nutritional deficiencies and psychological stress |
| a. Due to long hospitalisation, prolonged artificial ventilation, sequelae of critical illness, post intensive care syndrome |
| b. Infections: secondary infections, mucormycosis |
| c. Psychological issues -Anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder |
| d. Nutritional deficiencies |
| e. Drug side effects |
| C. Symptoms not readily explained by any known cause (list only includes common symptoms)a |
| a. Fatigue |
| b. ‘Brain fog’, memory lapses |
| c. Myalgias and arthralgias |
| d. Headache |
| e. Diarrhoea etc. |
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Some of these may also be partly influenced by other conditions listed above.