{"id":6300,"date":"2020-03-22T15:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/?p=6300"},"modified":"2020-03-22T15:00:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-22T07:00:29","slug":"covid-19-recovered-patients-may-have-impaired-lung-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/covid-19-recovered-patients-may-have-impaired-lung-function.html","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 Recovered Patients May Have Impaired Lung Function"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>After COVID-19 patients recover, their lung function may be impaired, and they may become breathless when they walk quickly. The conclusion was reached after the Hong Kong Hospital Authority conducted a study of the first batch of COVID-19 rehabilitation patients and made it public at a press conference on Thursday.<br \/>\nObservation results show that in this group of 12 people, 2 to 3 people&#8217;s vital capacity has changed, and they will breathe when walking fast.<br \/>\nOwen Tsang Tak-yin, medical director of the infectious disease centre at Princess Margaret Hospital in Kwai Chung, said: &#8220;After complete recovery, some patients&#8217; lung function may decline by 20% to 30%.&#8221;<br \/>\nHowever, over time, patients can perform cardiovascular exercises such as swimming to improve their vital capacity.<br \/>\nOwen Tsang Tak-yin added that although it is too early to determine the long-term effects of the disease, scans of the lungs of 9 of these patients also found that all patients had \u201cground-glass-like lungs\u201d, Indicates lung damage.<br \/>\nAt present, the CT scan of the lungs of patients with COVID-19 is typically characterized by ground glass-like shadows, which is a phenomenon in which pulmonary effusion forms white spots. And the results of scanning the same COVID-19 patient at different time points show that as the condition worsens, the patient&#8217;s &#8220;frosted glass&#8221; becomes more obvious.<br \/>\nNot only that, but previous studies have shown that male patients infected with COVID-19 must be alert to testicular damage even after recovery.<br \/>\nAt the end of February, authors of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published a new study stating that because of the enrichment of ACE2 by spermatogonia, a new coronavirus may attack the testes, threatening male reproductive function. The spermatogenic function will be blocked or even impaired.<br \/>\nAll these indicate that, even after complete recovery, the COVID-19 virus may cause some damage to the patient&#8217;s body in the short term.<\/p>\n<div class=\"37c28470d9d6d3cb9ff74e663adb766a\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3594734025006597\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After COVID-19 patients recover, their lung function may be impaired, and they may become breathless&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whatchina.cn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}