As COVID-19 can sometimes persist for months, besides the lungs, the virus can damage several organs in the body, such as heart and brain, potentially leading to the risk of long-term health problems. Nevertheless, the chances of having long COVID does not seem to be related to how ill...
Results: Fifty-five children with long-term COVID and 55 healthy control subjects were recruited. The weight, height, and body mass index Z-scores were similar in the groups. Within a median duration of 85 days (minimummaximum: 35-194) following COVID-19 infection, a ...
combined with emerging data on COVID-19, to confirm that significant lung damage is one possible complication of this new virus. In early June, a COVID-19 patient in her twenties, listed as being otherwise healthy, had to get a lung transplant at Northwestern Hospital in Chicago due to sev...
Therapy using lung epithelial stem andprogenitor cellsshows promise for mitigating the potentially lethal and highly damaging virus-induced inflammatory storm that can occur in severe cases of COVID-19, said Huaiyong Chen, Ph.D., principal investigator at Tianjin Institute of Respiratory Diseases, and...
The coronavirus also has made a noticeable impact on patients' lung and kidney function. Patients who were severely ill at the acute phase are more likely to have pulmonary diffusion abnormalities. In the meantime, 13 percent of discharged patients who had no acute kidney injury...
COVID-19 patients can suffer long-term lung and heart damage but, for many, this tends to improve over time, according to the first, prospective follow-up of patients infected with the coronavirus, presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress.[1] Researchers in the...
COVID-19 can involve persistence, sequelae, and other medical complications that last weeks to months after initial recovery. This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to identify studies assessing the long-term effects of COVID-19. LitCOVID and Emba
The neurologic manifestations of acute COVID-19 are well characterized, but a comprehensive evaluation of postacute neurologic sequelae at 1 year has not been undertaken. Here we use the national healthcare databases of the US Department of Veterans Affa
COVID-19 patients can suffer long-term lung and heart damage but, for many, this tends to improve over time, according to the first, prospective follow-up of patients infected with the coronavirus, presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress. ...
Britain Puts $10 Million Into Study on Long Term Effects of COVID-19 More Reuters FILE PHOTO: A medical worker tests swabs for the novel coronavirus at the Microbiology department of North Devon District Hospital, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19)...