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Study: Lung, heart damage in Covid-19 patients improve with time

By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 08-09-2020
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Study: Lung, heart damage in Covid-19 patients improve with time
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Damage from inflammation and fluid in the lungs caused by the coronavirus, which shows up on CT scans as white patches known as 'ground glass', also improved. It was present in 74 patients (88 per cent) at six weeks and 48 patients (56 per cent) at 12 weeks.

At the six-week visit, the echocardiograms showed that 48 patients (58.5 per cent) had dysfunction of the left ventricle of the heart at the point when it is relaxing and dilating (diastole). Biological indicators of heart damage, blood clots and inflammation were all significantly elevated.

"We do not believe left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is specific to Covid-19, but more a sign of severity of the disease in general," Sahanic said. "Fortunately, in the Innsbruck cohort, we did not observe any severe coronavirus-associated heart dysfunction in the post-acute phase. The diastolic dysfunction that we observed also tended to improve with time."

In a second presentation at the event, Yara Al Chikhanie, a PhD student at the Grenoble Alpes University, France, said that the sooner Covid-19 patients started a pulmonary rehabilitation programme after coming off ventilators, the better and faster their recovery.

"How soon they can start rehabilitation depends on the patients being judged medically stable by their doctors. Despite the significant improvement, the average period of three weeks in rehabilitation wasn't enough for them to recover completely," Chikhanie said.

Source: timesofindia
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