Swiss Recommendations for the Follow-Up and Treatment of Pulmonary Long COVID.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Emerging evidence suggests that long-term pulmonary symptoms and functional impairment occurs in a proportion of individuals following SARS-CoV-2 infection. Although the proportion of affected patients remains to be determined, physicians are increasingly being confronted with patients reporting respiratory symptoms and impairment beyond the acute phase of COVID-19. In face of limited evidence, the Swiss Society for Pulmonology established a working group to address this area of unmet need and formulated diagnostic and treatment recommendations for the care of patients with pulmonary long COVID (LC).

Method

The Swiss COVID Lung Study group and Swiss Society for Pulmonology (SSP) formulated 13 questions addressing the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary LC. A su

SUBMITTER: Funke-Chambour M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8339046 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature