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<p>The impact of COVID-19 on lung function is an indisputable reality that has posed major management problems to all categories of specialists who have treated patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. This disease presents an impressive multisystemic feature, in correlation with clinical, paraclinical, imaging and functional heterogeneity. Although most COVID-19 cases have a complete resolution, the evolution of vulnerable patients (elderly or people with multiple comorbidities such as cardiovascular, metabolic, renal, neoplastic or respiratory problems) or those with moderate to severe forms of the disease can be slower or even unfavourable. Recent data in the literature have shown that many of these patients return to hospital due to symptoms and respiratory dysfunction more than 6–12 months after the acute viral episode, highlighting the need for rigorous evaluation and further pulmonary function testing among patients with a history of COVID-19 to anticipate the appearance of long-term respiratory functional sequelae.</p>
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The impact of COVID-19 on lung function is an indisputable reality that has posed major management problems to all categories of specialists who have treated patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection. This disease presents an impressive multisystemic feature, in correlation with clinical, paraclinical, imaging and functional heterogeneity. Although most COVID-19 cases have a complete resolution, the evolution of vulnerable patients (elderly or people with multiple comorbidities such as cardiovascular, metabolic, renal, neoplastic or respiratory problems) or those with moderate to severe forms of the disease can be slower or even unfavourable. Recent data in the literature have shown that many of these patients return to hospital due to symptoms and respiratory dysfunction more than 6–12 months after the acute viral episode, highlighting the need for rigorous evaluation and further pulmonary function testing among patients with a history of COVID-19 to anticipate the appearance of long-term respiratory functional sequelae.

Lung function assessment following SARS-CoV-2 infection: past, present and future?

Department of Internal Medicine – Pneumology

“Grigore T. Popa” University of Medicine and Pharmacy

Pneumologia

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The impact of COVID-19 on lung function is an indisputable reality that has posed major management problems to all categories of specialists who have treated...

Lung function assessment following SARS-CoV-2 infection: past, present and future?

Published Online: Oct 17, 2023

Page range: 98 - 105

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pneum-2023-0028

Keywords
COVID-19, lung function, respiratory sequelae

© 2022 Daniela Robu Popa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Lung function assessment following SARS-CoV-2 infection: past, present and future?

Published Online: Oct 17, 2023

Page range: 98 - 105

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pneum-2023-0028

KeywordsCOVID-19, lung function, respiratory sequelae

© 2022 Daniela Robu Popa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
COVID-19, lung function, respiratory sequelae