Lung damage in 90% of corona patients recovered in Wuhan: report

Wuhan, Ta. Thursday, August 6, 2020

The lung condition of most of the patients who have recovered from the corona virus in the Chinese city of Wuhan is very bad. Not only that, about 5% of the recovered patients have been re-infected with corona and hospitalized. This was revealed in a survey conducted by doctors at Wuhan University.

A team led by Peng Xiong, director of the hospital's intensive care unit, is working at Wuhan University's Zhangnan Hospital. The team conducted a survey of 100 patients who recovered from corona in Wuhan. The team has been monitoring 100 patients who have recovered from the corona since April.

Apart from that she was going to the patients' homes from time to time to get information about their health. The first phase of the one-year survey ended in July and the average age of the patients in the survey is 59 years. According to the results of the first phase, 90% of the recovered patients are on the verge of lung destruction. This means that the ventilation and gas exchange function of the lungs of these patients is not working. These people have not yet fully recovered.

Peng’s team conducted a 6-minute walk test with patients in which patients were reported to be able to walk only 400 meters in 6 minutes. While a healthy person can walk up to 500 meters. Some of the patients who have recovered have to rely on oxygen cylinders even after three months. Not only that, 10 out of 100 patients have run out of antibodies that can fight corona.

About 5 percent of the patients tested negative for the Covid-19 nucleic acid test but tested positive for the immunoglobulin M test. That means they have to be quarantined again. However, it is unknown at this time what he will do after leaving the post. There has also been a sharp decline in the number of B-cells that can fight the virus in the body of recovered patients. According to Peng, people who have yet to recover from a coronary heart disease are not fully recovered and will take some time to recover.