Severe COVID-19 with persistent respiratory failure-A retrospective cohort study in a tertiary centre in Malaysia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Management of severe COVID-19 patients with persistent respiratory failure after acute phase treatment is not only challenging, but evidence for treatment is scarce, despite some authors reporting favourable clinical responses to corticosteroid therapy in histologically proven secondary organising pneumonia (OP). This study aimed to report the course of the disease, radiological pattern and clinical outcomes of severe COVID-19 patients with persistent respiratory failure.

Methods

This was a retrospective cohort study of severe COVID-19 patients who were admitted to a single tertiary centre from 1 January 2021 to 30 June 2021. The clinical data of the patients during admission and clinic follow-up, including radiological images, were traced using electronic medic

SUBMITTER: Wong CK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9671325 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature