Annals of Intensive Care (Mar 2022)

Result of one-year, prospective follow-up of intensive care unit survivors after SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia

  • Guillaume Eberst,
  • Fréderic Claudé,
  • Lucie Laurent,
  • Aurelia Meurisse,
  • Pauline Roux-Claudé,
  • Cindy Barnig,
  • Dewi Vernerey,
  • Sophie Paget-Bailly,
  • Kevin Bouiller,
  • Catherine Chirouze,
  • Julien Behr,
  • Franck Grillet,
  • Ophélie Ritter,
  • Sinan Karaer,
  • Sébastien Pili-Floury,
  • Hadrien Winiszewski,
  • Emmanuel Samain,
  • Pierre Decavel,
  • Gilles Capellier,
  • Virginie Westeel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13613-022-00997-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Key Points The most interesting findings were that most patients showed an improvement in their DLCO at 3, 6, and 12 months, and all patients but one who normalized their DLCO did not deteriorate afterwards. Only 11% of patients had persistent impairment of DLCO at 1 year.

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