{"id":7435,"date":"2021-03-23T13:53:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T20:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=7435"},"modified":"2021-03-25T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T20:54:03","slug":"radiological-and-functional-lung-sequelae-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/radiological-and-functional-lung-sequelae-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Radiological and Functional Lung Sequelae of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A systematic review of PubMed and Embase to investigate characteristics of lung sequelae in COVID-19 patients found that about half of COVID-19 patients still had residual abnormalities on chest computerized tomography (CT) and pulmonary function tests (PFTs) at about 3 months after hospital discharge. Residual CT abnormalities were present in 55.7% (95% CI 41.2-70.1) of patients. The most frequent chest CT abnormality was ground glass opacity in 44.1% (95% CI 30.5-57.8), followed by parenchymal band or fibrous stripe in 33.9% (95% CI 18.4-49.4).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">So et al.\u00a0(Mar 22, 2021). Radiological and Functional Lung Sequelae of COVID-19: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. BMC Pulmonary Medicine.<\/span><\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12890-021-01463-0\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12890-021-01463-0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A systematic review of PubMed and Embase to investigate characteristics of lung sequelae in COVID-19 patients found that about half of COVID-19 patients still had residual abnormalities on chest computerized tomography (CT) and pulmonary function tests (PFTs) at about 3 months after hospital discharge. Residual CT abnormalities were present in 55.7% (95% CI 41.2-70.1) of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2021\/03\/23\/radiological-and-functional-lung-sequelae-of-covid-19-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[34,51],"topic":[20],"class_list":["post-7435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","tag-clinical-characteristics","tag-sequelae","topic-clinical-characteristics-and-health-care-setting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7435"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7436,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7435\/revisions\/7436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7435"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=7435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}