Respiratory symptoms and radiological findings in post-acute COVID-19 syndrome.

ABSTRACT:

Rationale

The characteristics of patients with respiratory complaints and/or lung radiologic abnormalities after hospitalisation for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are unknown. The objectives were to determine their characteristics and the relationships between dyspnoea, radiologic abnormalities and functional impairment.

Methods

In the COMEBAC (Consultation Multi-Expertise de Bicêtre Après COVID-19) cohort study, 478 hospital survivors were evaluated by telephone 4 months after hospital discharge, and 177 who had been hospitalised in an intensive care unit (ICU) or presented relevant symptoms underwent an ambulatory evaluation. New-onset dyspnoea and cough were evaluated, and the results of pulmonary function tests and high-resolution computed tomography of the chest w

SUBMITTER: Jutant EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8685862 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature