Post-COVID-19 perspectives: Pulmonologists' point of view

Damien Basille (1, 2) , Vincent Jounieaux (3, 2) , Claire Andrejak (2, 1)

1 CHU Amiens-Picardie
2 AGIR - Agents infectieux, résistance et chimiothérapie - UR UPJV 4294
3 Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation

More than 5 millions of people in France have presented a SARS-CoV-2 infection. In the previous coronavirus epidemics (SARS-CoV, Mers-CoV), patients have developed pulmonary sequelae with dyspnoea, DLCO decrease and/or fibrosis lesions. The purpose of this review was to evaluate the respiratory sequelae and to do a summary of the main respiratory symptoms after a COVID-19 infection and their aetiologies. The four main causes of dyspnoea are respiratory sequelae, deconditioning, hyperventilation and classical causes of dyspnoea. The main respiratory sequelae were DLCO alteration and fibrosis pattern. Actually, the prevalence of these respiratory sequelae is unknown.

Mots clés: DLCO; Fibrosis; Deconditioning; Hyperventilation; Dyspnoea

Domaines: Médecine humaine et pathologie

Damien Basille, Vincent Jounieaux, Claire Andrejak. Post-COVID-19 perspectives: Pulmonologists' point of view. Anesthésie & Réanimation, 2022, 8 (3), pp.236-240. ⟨10.1016/j.anrea.2022.03.005⟩. ⟨hal-03760267⟩