30 percent of people who have had Covid-19 will have chronic respiratory problems, Italian experts say. Other doctors admit that the coronavirus infection has permanent consequences in the respiratory system and more.
According to Italian doctors, the lungs of those who are healed will continue to be at risk for at least six months, and almost a third will have chronic problems with them. These are the consequences of the transition of COVID-19 by patients. According to specialists, the disease can cause irreversible damage to the lungs.
COVID leaves traces
"It will be a new crisis" - said the pulmonologist Luca Richeldi, a member of the scientific committee advising the Italian government during the epidemic, quoted by PAP. He said 30 percent of people who contracted COVID-19 after contracting the coronavirus will have chronic respiratory problems.
"We are concerned about the respiratory failure that we are seeing the onset of a new lung disease which islung disease after COVID . A small percentage of patients will remain with chronic lung disease and require treatment, said Prof. James Chalmers, Respiratory Consultant at Ninewells, in an interview with BBC.
This is confirmed by other studies. Scottish doctors have just carried out a major research project involving hospitals and universities across Scotland looking at the long-term consequences of COVID-19. They found that a small number of people who received treatment in the intensive care unit had lung injuries.
Doctors from China, where the virus first appeared, had similar observations. They have evidence that, of 70 patients who survived COVID-19 pneumonia, 66 hadlung lesions seen on X-rays.The lesions consisted of dense clusters of hardened tissue blocking blood vessels in small air bubbles called alveoli, which absorb oxygen, and changes to the tissue around the alveoli, reports sciencenews.org.
Chinese doctors also recall that studies conducted on patients who underwent SARS a few years ago also showed persistent signs of lung damage about seven months after their recovery.
Kidneys also at risk
Doctorshowever, they emphasize that it is not only the respiratory system that may suffer from COVID. Some people, even those who had not had problems with their kidneys before, showed signs of kidney damage. As shown by observations from China and the USA, approximately 20-30% of patients after infection suffer from moderate to severe acute kidney injury, and 30% of patients admitted to intensive care with coronavirus infection required dialysis. Symptoms of kidney problems in COVID-19 patients includehigh levels of protein in the urine and abnormal blood work .