Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis: Facts—Challenges and Futures: A Narrative Review
"Post-COVID-19 Pulmonary Fibrosis: Facts—Challenges and Futures: A Narrative Review"
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'Alarming' asymptomatic 'silent' & 'mild' Covid found to cause severe progressive lung scarring (fibrosis:) that unlike other lung fibrosis that 'usually occurs in the elderly, post-COVID fibrosis is seen irrespective of age and other co-morbidities', shows new study.
A silent march-Post covid fibrosis in asymptomatics – A cause for concern?
significant proportion of patients with asymptomatic to mild COVID-19 cases have demonstrated ground-glass opacities and pneumonia on HRCT.7 However, the impact on lung function over medium to long term and silent progression to fibrosis remains unclear"