Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Abnormalities at 1-year Follow-up CT after Severe COVID-19

Xiaoyu Han; Yanqing Fan; Osamah Alwalid; Xin Zhang; Xi Jia; Yuting Zheng; Heshui Shi

doi:10.1148/radiol.2021210972

Fibrotic Interstitial Lung Abnormalities at 1-year Follow-up CT after Severe COVID-19

Radiology. 2021 Dec;301(3):E438-E440. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2021210972. Epub 2021 Jul 27.

Authors

Xiaoyu Han^#¹, Yanqing Fan^#¹, Osamah Alwalid¹, Xin Zhang¹, Xi Jia¹, Yuting Zheng¹, Heshui Shi¹

Affiliation

¹ From the Department of Radiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1277 Jiefang Avenue, Wuhan 430022, People's Republic of China (X.H., O.A., X.Z., X.J., Y.Z., H.S.); Hubei Province Key Laboratory of Molecular Imaging, Wuhan, People's Republic of China (X.H., O.A., X.Z., X.J., Y.Z., H.S.); and Department of Radiology, Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital, Wuhan, People's Republic of China (Y.F.).

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Fibrotic interstitial lung abnormalities in survivors of severe COVID-19 depicted on 6-month CT scans were persistent on 1-year CT scans and were negatively correlated with the lung diffusion capacity.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
COVID-19 / complications*
China
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Lung / diagnostic imaging
Male
Middle Aged
Prospective Studies
Pulmonary Fibrosis / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Fibrosis / etiology*
SARS-CoV-2
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*