DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My father has been a heavy smoker for most of his life. He was diagnosed with lung cancer recently. He underwent surgery and several chemotherapy treatments prior to the outbreak of COVID-19. He is getting a bit agitated being home, and we are wondering if it is safe ...
The post-COVID ILD suspected group included more men (68.2 vs. 31.8%) with significantly older age compared to the control group (64.0卤12.3 vs. 51.3卤14.9years). Most patient needed hospital care for COVID-19 pneumonia (68.6% of all patients and 84.1% of ILD suspected group) and ...
After many weeks on a ventilator in the intensive care unit (ICU) at Chicago’s Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 28-year-old Mayra Ramirez was critically ill with COVID-19. A paralegal who had enjoyed running 5K races, her lungs were nowravaged. She developed severe acute respiratory distress ...
Delivering lung cancer care during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed significant and ongoing challenges. There is a lack of published COVID-19 and lung cancer evidence-based reviews, including for the whole patient pathway. We searched for COVID-19 and lung cancer publications and brought together...
Coronavirus patients recover faster if they undergo rehabilitation as soon as possible after coming off ventilators or leaving intensive care. 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 f...
It will be important, Garibaldi says, for all patients who have survived severe COVID-19—and experienced severe ARDS requiringmechanical ventilationor high levels of oxygen—to schedule regular follow-up visits with their primary care physician or a pulmonary specialist so they can be evaluated for...
An incomplete understanding of the molecular mechanisms behind impairment of lung pathobiology by COVID-19 complicates its clinical management. In this study, we analyzed the gene expression pattern of cells obtained from biopsies of COVID-19-affected pa
increase in the overall number of diagnosed cases and a concerning trend: a rise in the proportion of patients diagnosed with advanced stage lung cancer, both non–small cell and small cell. This could be due to changes in healthcare utilization patterns, potentially linked to the COVID-19 ...
Post-COVID-19 pulmonary sequalae has been well recognized early in the pandemic. Survivorship clinics were crucial for managing at-risk patients, especially those discharged from intensive care unit (ICU). Beyond these ICU survivors, it was not clear who else would benefit from pulmonary function...
of persistent lung damage in children and adolescents after COVID-19, Dr. Knieling said. Lung MRI is already widely available, he noted, making these imaging approaches easy to integrate into clinical routine care. More research will help show the full potential of MRI in COVID-19 survivors....