Heterogeneity of post-COVID impairment: interim analysis of a prospective study from Czechia

Virol J. 2021 Apr 12;18(1):73. doi: 10.1186/s12985-021-01546-8.

Abstract

We stratified post-COVID patients into four newly established clinical groups based on the presence or absence of at least one subjective respiratory symptom and at least one objective sign of pulmonary involvement. Nearly half of outpatients and one third of hospitalized post-COVID patients had objective signs of pulmonary involvement without accompanying subjective respiratory symptoms three months after diagnosis.

Keywords: 6-min Walk Test; Computer tomography; Lung function; Post-COVID; Symptom.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • COVID-19* / complications
  • COVID-19* / epidemiology
  • COVID-19* / pathology
  • Czech Republic / epidemiology
  • Hospitalization
  • Humans
  • Lung / physiopathology*
  • Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome
  • Prospective Studies
  • SARS-CoV-2