Curious and knowledge driven MD. Medicine, ⚽️ & all in between. #PASC #Longcovid #airborne 🇸🇪 😷💉💉💉 @sofbreland@mastodon.world
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15 Mar 2023
#LongCovidAwarenessDay
“It’s been 7 hours and 1080 days ago, since…” Since life as I knew it changed in an instant. I long to be able to walk, play soccer… or even take a shower without having to plan in advance. I long. But not for Covid. We exist. We need help. ❤️
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
Excited to share our study by @keylas3 et al. on pathological autoantibodies in people with Long COVID. We asked whether IgG in patients with Long COVID bind to human tissues/antigens and cause pathologies when transferred into mice. With @PutrinoLab
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
26 Feb 2024
I have NEVER – EVER – had to encourage someone with ME to do more.
I always – ALWAYS – have to persuade them to do LESS.
To stop a favourite activity.
To adjust a task to lessen the effort.
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
24 Aug 2025
Would like to note that many of us who are virologists, microbiologists m, immunologists and ID specialists have had this fear since the beginning of just given the nature of corona viruses
Personally, imo there is enough evidence to state it is. Why do I believe that?
23 Aug 2025
“A growing number of scientists believe the SARS-CoV-2 virus may be subtly altering our immune systems. If correct, their hypothesis will change how we understand everything from RSV to shingles to sepsis.”
“It’s certainly impacting our immune health & probably.. overall health”
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17 Jul 2025
A fascinating new study by Vishnu Shankar et al. @stanfordimmuno shows that oxidative stress is a shared characteristic of ME/CFS and Long COVID in lymphocytes due to inability to clear reactive oxygen species. This happens in sex-specific manner. (1/)
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
24 Jun 2025
Närstående som tar avstånd och läkare som hävdar att postcovid inte finns. I en ny rapport från Svenska Covidföreningen uppger många drabbade att de känt sig misstrodda av både vårdpersonal och människor de bryr sig om.
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
15 Jun 2025
Why is there immediate PEM and then PEM on a 1-2 day delay?
I wonder if it helps to borrow from DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness):
- Immediate: Build up of lactic acid from use of anaerobic energy pathway triggers pain receptors (but can resolve quickly)
- Delayed: Immune response/inflammation takes time, 1-2 days, to build to a point where it triggers pain receptors
13 Jun 2025
Ok, so after that (unintentional) cliffhanger, let's talk about energy production infrastructure and post-exertional malaise (PEM) in people with infection- and exposure-associated chronic illnesses (IACIs) such as #LongCOVID, #MECFS, chronic #Lyme and more. Let's start with 1/
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13 Jun 2025
Wanted to put forward a thread about #PEM since there have been some new developments and also because I just need to get some of this out of my head and work through it. Folks with infection- and exposure-associated chronic illnesses (IACIs) like #LongCOVID, #MECFS, 1/
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7 Apr 2025
Barn och ungdomar med postcovid är väldigt utsatta. Vi måste vara bättre än så här. Vi måste kunna erbjuda utredning, vård och stöd även i Sverige.
7 Apr 2025
Julina har varit sjuk i fem år - åkte till Italien för att få vård - P1 Morgon sverigesradio.se/artikel/jul…
Tack vare @surf4children är Julina äntligen bättre och kan leva ett normalt liv. 🙏
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
1 Apr 2025
I am excited to travel to Amsterdam next week to visit @DrDenDunnen and @RobWust for joint projects.
I will also be in Groningen for the ID-DarkMatter-NCD & ME/CFS Lines Joint Consortium Meeting. With the theme “Unraveling Post-Infectious Immune-Related Disorders.
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
24 Mar 2025
Very excited and honored to visit @TheCrick to give the Crick Lecture and the 2025 Honess Lecture for Immunology this week on the "Immunology of Post-Acute Infection Syndrome"!
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
14 Mar 2025
This week for #LongCovidAwarenessDay, we’ve compiled a fact sheet of up-to-date statistics & citations on Long COVID.
Data is one of the most useful tools to strengthen understanding of #LongCovid. We hope this resource helps our community's fight.🩵
patientresearchcovid19.com/2… 1/
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13 Feb 2025
I am excited to be part of this paper: "Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in long COVID" by @microbeminded2 @MichaelPelusoMD and team, describing clinical trial recommendations for long COVID
@polybioRF
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
12 Feb 2025
Check out this new paper by @microbeminded2 @MichaelPelusoMD and colleagues describing new insights and clinical trial recommendations for "Targeting the SARS-CoV-2 reservoir in long COVID" 👇
@polybioRF
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
18 Jan 2025
Ekot rapporterar om JO-anmälan av Socialstyrelsen. Vi menar att ärendet är principiellt viktigt att utreda. Myndigheter ska inte godtyckligt kunna välja vilka synpunkter och underlag som ska registreras.
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
12 Jan 2025
Here are the recordings of the children’s LongCOVID conference, organised by @surf4children. Danilo is a trailblazer and has done extraordinary work on treatment regimes. Also check out the talk by @BinitaKane on treatment. @PutrinoLab @LaelYonker @SammieFMc too.
12 Jan 2025
recorded speakers include
@PutrinoLab @resiapretorius @BrodinPetter @DrMunblit @theovos @LaelYonker
direct link to youtube
youtu.be/V6lld9hrlEw
please share widely
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10 Jan 2025
Ett exempel på varför lyssna på våra patienter är en av de absolut viktigaste saker vi kan göra. Vara ödmjuka och inte dra förhastade slutsatser.
9 Jan 2025
Since many of you supported my intentions to write a thank-you letter to the emergency room doctor who diagnosed my ovarian cancer, I decided to share what I sent to her. (Grab a coffee, it’s a long read).
In an age of anger, why not choose gratitude?
#fuckcancer #yyj
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
8 Jan 2025
Working with a great team to organize @KeystoneSymp on "#LongCOVID and Other Post-Acute Infection Syndromes #PAIS" #KSLongCOVID26
August 10-13, 2025 | Santa Fe
Hope to see you there!
keysym.us/KSLongCOVID26
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Sofia Breland, MD 🇸🇪🌎 retweeted
31 Dec 2024
academic.oup.com/eurheartj/a…
Hopefully, "a game changer" in unexplained syncope workup has been born. Merging cardiovascular autonomic testing including 24-hour blood pressure monitoring with prolonged ECG monitoring using implantable devices will create a new standard.
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27 Dec 2024
Vad ska man säga? Ska man skratta el gråta? Ställ detta bredvid svaren som Gisslén gav angående hur man skyddar sig mot viruset…
27 Dec 2024
Oj, nu vaknade Sverige! En revolutionerande upptäckt!
omni.se/studie-munskydd-kan-…
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20 Dec 2024
Mycket viktigt inlägg i en debatt som knappt borde vara en debatt…. Tack @GANyborg 🙏🏻
Vi har skrevet artikkelkommentar til Reme og Jacobsen i @psykologitid
Forfattere: Fra Koronastudien forskere Gunhild Nyborg og @andersinthis, lege/prosjektleder @ArSoraas, psykolog/PhD-stipdendiat Sofie Buer, samt professor i psykologi @KunstJonas
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