A Systematic Review of Chest Imaging Findings in Long COVID Patients.

ABSTRACT: Long COVID is the persistence of one or more COVID-19 symptoms after the initial viral infection, and there is evidence supporting its association with lung damage. In this systematic review, we provide an overview of lung imaging and its findings in long COVID patients. A PubMed search was performed on 29 September 2021, for English language studies in which lung imaging was performed in adults suffering from long COVID. Two independent researchers extracted the data. Our search identified 3130 articles, of which 31, representing the imaging findings of 342 long COVID patients, were retained. The most common imaging modality used was computed tomography (CT) (N = 249). A total of 29 different imaging findings were reported, which were broadly categorized into interstitial (fibrotic), pleu

SUBMITTER: Bazdar S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9965323 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature