Doctors warn of possible consequential damage from Covid 19 disease - especially to the lungs. A corona study from Wuhan, China, now points in this direction.
- Can Covid 19 disease be associated with long-term damage? A current study from China is devoted to the question.
- The researchers found lung impairments in patients for a very long time - in a very high percentage.
- Even German pulmonologists warned recently against possible long-term consequences of an illness at the novel coronavirus.
Wuhan - Can Sars-CoV-2 * cause long-term damage in sick people - and if so, what? Scientists suspect a market in the city of Wuhan in China as the original starting point for the corona pandemic * . According to the British daily The Times, a study has now been completed at the University of Wuhan , the results of which point in this direction. According to this, damage to their lungs could be found in almost all Covid-19 * sufferers months after their diagnosis .
Corona study from the University of Wuhan: Covid-19 sufferers complain of lung damage months later
The study, led by Dr. Peng Zhiyong, the intensive care unit director of Zhongnan Hospital at Wuhan University , is scheduled to last one year, according to the report. 107 patients who are on average 59 years old are examined . All of them had pneumonia during their Covid 19 illness and had to be artificially serviced.
Zhiyong's analysis showed that 90 percent of the study participants were still three months after their discharge from the clinichad an impaired lung function . The test persons complained of a lack of energy , difficulty walking and symptoms of depression . Furthermore, many had not fully regained their sense of smell or taste .
Possible long-term corona damage? "It is assumed that there can be long-term consequences"
It was only at the end of last month that the German Society for Pneumology and Respiratory Medicine (DGP) warned, according to the dpa , that many Covid-19 patients had more or less severe lung damage. This was shown by images from the computer tomograph. The University Hospital Augsburg recently published pictures after autopsies :The lungs of some corona victims looked terrifying - full of holes like a sponge. The Augsburg doctors came to the conclusion that this damage was not caused by ventilation, but most likely directly by the virus.
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"It is believed that there may be long-term consequences," said Torsten Blum, senior physician at the Heckeshorn Lung Clinic in the Helios Clinic Emil von Behring, to the dpa . It is not just about patients who have been on ventilators for a long time . "We know that there can be scars in the area of the lungs."
Essential questions relate in particular to the easier cases . People who didn't have to go to the hospital. "This new coronavirus can possibly trigger long-lasting or even permanent consequential damage in the lungs," said Blum. Specifically, this means: shortness of breath - especially when you are exerting yourself.
The British corona management seems anything but to run smoothly. Around 740,000 corona tests had to be recalled. (frs with material from dpa) * Merkur.de is part of the Ippen digital editorial network.
