Interstitial Lung Fibrosis Following COVID-19 Pneumonia

• Published in: Diagnostics (Basel) Vol. 12; no. 8; p. 2028
• Main Authors: Lazar, Mihai, Barbu, Ecaterina Constanta, Chitu, Cristina Emilia, Tiliscan, Catalin, Stratan, Laurentiu, Arama, Sorin Stefan, Arama, Victoria, Ion, Daniela Adriana
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Switzerland MDPI AG 22.08.2022; MDPI
• Subjects: Bacterial pneumonia; Complications and side effects; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; Cysts; Cytokines; Disease; fibrosis predictors; Infections; long COVID; Lung diseases, Interstitial; Medical imaging; Pandemics; Patients; Pneumonia; Pulmonary fibrosis; Quantitative analysis; Regression analysis; Risk factors; SARS-COV-2; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Software; Tomography; Tuberculosis; Variables; Romania; risk factors; long COVID; quantitative analysis; SARS-COV-2; fibrosis predictors; pulmonary fibrosis

Pulmonary fibrosis represents a stage of normal physiologic response to inflammatory aggression, mostly self-limiting and reversible; however, numerous patients treated for SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia present after release from hospital residual lung fibrosis. In this article, we aim to present an optimiza...