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Date Published: 12/06/2022
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No. 46 (2022)
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Vo, P. M. T., Dinh, C. T., Tran, X. Q., Phan, V. H., Nguyen, T. H. T., Duong, T. T. V., Tran, T. A. T., Nguyen, N. T. L., Do, T. T. T., & Trat, Q. T. (2023). POST-COVID-19 PULMONARY SEQUELAE: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, RADIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND PULMONARY FUNCTION. Cantho Journal of Medicine and Pharmacy, 46, 135-145. https://tapchi.ctump.edu.vn/index.php/ctump/article/view/979

POST-COVID-19 PULMONARY SEQUELAE: PATHOPHYSIOLOGY, CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS, RADIOLOGICAL FEATURES AND PULMONARY FUNCTION

Pham Minh Thu Vo1,, Chi Thien Dinh1, Xuan Quynh Tran1, Viet Hung Phan1, Thi Hong Tran Nguyen1, Thi Thanh Van Duong1, Trong Anh Tuan Tran2, Ngoc Thanh Long Nguyen2, Thi Thanh Tra Do2, Quoc Trung Trat2
1 Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy
2 Can Tho University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital

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Abstract

COVID-19 has been known as a disease that makes significant influences on respiratory system with a wide range of severity. Lung damages after COVID-19 infection could be reversible or abnormally regenerative. This progression could lead to pulmonary fibrosis that causes dysfunction of ventilation-gas exchange and presents with prolonged dyspnea. Lung injuries and their recovery could be assessed by chest computed tomography imaging during follow-up of post-COVID-19 patients. The gradual accumulation of damages in the lung structure during acute period definitely has a serious impact on the respiratory capacity whose recovery has not been known. Spirometry and DLCO are the first-line pulmonary fuction tests to help assess the consequences of lung injuries leading to physiological dysfunction of the lungs.

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Interstitial lung disease, pulmonary fibrosis, pulmonary hypertension, HRCT, pulmonary function test (PFT)

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