Short Communications 16
COVID-19 - Clinical

[SC16-2] Mechanisms of Myalgic Encephalitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and long COVID with predominant fatigue: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study of the brain and muscle at 7 Tesla.

*Beata Godlewska¹, Uzay E Emir^2,4, Ann L Sharpley¹, Stephen Williams³, Ana Jorge Gonçalves⁵, Betty Raman⁶, Ladislav Valkovič^6,7, Philip J Cowen¹ (1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2. Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK, 3. Division of Informatics, Imaging and Data Science; Faculty of Medicine, Biology and Health; University of Manchester , UK, 4. School of Health Sciences, Purdue University, USA, 5. Wolfson Molecular Imaging Centre, Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK, 6. Oxford Centre for Clinical MR Research (OCMR), RDM Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, UK, 7. Department of Imaging Methods, Institute of Measurement Science, Slovak Academy of Sciences, SVK)

Keywords:myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), long-COVID, lactate, choline, magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS)