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Pathological condition resulting from some disease, injury, or other trauma
A sequela is a pathological condition resulting from a disease, injury, therapy, or other trauma. Derived from the Latin word meaning "sequel", it is used in the medical field to mean a complication or condition following a prior illness or disease. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: SequelaA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome as a sequela of COVID-19Influential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The principles and practice of medicineThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Congenital heart block: development of late-onset cardiomyopathy, a previously underappreciated sequelaCited 354 times
- Go sideways: Complication (medicine)A closely related topic
- Go sideways: Scarlet feverA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun Chiefly in the plural: a condition or disease which follows chronologically after an earlier one, being either partly or wholly caused by it, or made possible by it.
Noun That which follows; a consequence, an effect. People who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another; followers.
Noun That which follows; a consequence, an effect.
Noun People who adhere to the opinions or teachings of another; followers.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Congenital heart block: development of late-onset cardiomyopathy, a previously underappreciated sequela
Distinct Pathogenic Sequela in Rhesus Macaques Infected with CCR5 or CXCR4 Utilizing SHIVs
Prospective Evaluation of Hearing Impairment as a Sequela of Acute Bacterial Meningitis
Chronology of behavioral symptoms and neuropathological sequela in R6/2 Huntington's disease transgenic mice
Angiosarcoma of the breast after conservation therapy for invasive cancer, the incidence and outcome. An unforeseen sequela
ADHD and gender: are risks and sequela of ADHD the same for boys and girls?
Frequency of intrahepatic arteriovenous fistula as a sequela to percutaneous needle puncture of the liver
Recurrent spontaneous hippocampal seizures in the rat as a chronic sequela to limbic status epilepticus
🆕 Influential since 2022
Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome as a sequela of COVID-19
Long COVID: An inevitable sequela of SARS-CoV-2 infection
Prospective Evaluation of Autonomic Dysfunction in Post-Acute Sequela of COVID-19
Brain fog as a Long-term Sequela of COVID-19
Neurological sequela and disruption of neuron-glia homeostasis in SARS-CoV-2 infection
📚 Books worth reading
The principles and practice of medicineSir William Osler · 1892
The yeast connectionWilliam G. Crook · 1983
Guide to immediateanaesthetic reactionsC. J. Levy, John Watkins · 1988
Metabolic toxemia of late pregnancyThomas H. Brewer · 1966
Intrauterine devices and their complicationsDavid A. Edelman · 1979- 📕Insensitive feetPaul W. Brand · 1966
The skin in rheumatic diseaseC. R. Lovell · 1990
Unfavorable Result in Plastic SurgeryRobert M., M.D. Goldwyn · 1984
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