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Wouldn't you expect long-term side effects from hospitalization that likely involved a ventilator and sedation? Not an expert here. Maybe someone else can chime

Wouldn't you expect long-term side effects from hospitalization that likely involved a ventilator and sedation? Not an expert here. Maybe someone else can chime in?

rtlfe 6y ago
IIRC ~20% of covid hospital patients were on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic, and that has gone down as we've learned more about treatment. You can't assume that people were on ventilators just because they were hospitalized.
jointpdf 6y ago
This is presumably only one aspect of “long Covid”, but a study [0] that was making the rounds a couple weeks ago found this (quoted from the accompanying editorial)[1]: > ”In 100 recovering patients included in the study, 67% of whom recovered at home, evaluated a mean of 71 days after confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, 78% had demonstrable cardiac involvement via cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 76% had detectable high-sensitivity troponin, and 60% had evidence of active myocardial inflammation by abnormal native T1 and T2.” > ”...if this high rate of risk is confirmed, the pathologic basis for progressive left ventricular dysfunction is validated, and especially if longitudinal assessment reveals new-onset heart failure in the recovery phase of COVID-19, then the crisis of COVID-19 will not abate but will instead shift to a new de novo incidence of heart failure and other chronic cardiovascular complications.” In other words, even mild cases of Covid-19 are very frequently resulting in heart inflammation and other forms of cardiac injury. [0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... [1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768915 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... [2]: (another editorial, easier read) https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...

Wouldn't you expect long-term side effects from hospitalization that likely involved a ventilator and sedation? Not an expert here. Maybe someone else can chime in?

rtlfe 6y ago

IIRC ~20% of covid hospital patients were on ventilators at the beginning of the pandemic, and that has gone down as we've learned more about treatment. You can't assume that people were on ventilators just because they were hospitalized.

jointpdf 6y ago

This is presumably only one aspect of “long Covid”, but a study [0] that was making the rounds a couple weeks ago found this (quoted from the accompanying editorial)[1]: > ”In 100 recovering patients included in the study, 67% of whom recovered at home, evaluated a mean of 71 days after confirmed COVID-19 diagnosis, 78% had demonstrable cardiac involvement via cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 76% had detectable high-sensitivity troponin, and 60% had evidence of active myocardial inflammation by abnormal native T1 and T2.” > ”...if this high rate of risk is confirmed, the pathologic basis for progressive left ventricular dysfunction is validated, and especially if longitudinal assessment reveals new-onset heart failure in the recovery phase of COVID-19, then the crisis of COVID-19 will not abate but will instead shift to a new de novo incidence of heart failure and other chronic cardiovascular complications.” In other words, even mild cases of Covid-19 are very frequently resulting in heart inflammation and other forms of cardiac injury. [0]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768916 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... [1]: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/2768915 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamacardiology/fullarticle/... [2]: (another editorial, easier read) https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-lasting-heart-damage/ https://www.statnews.com/2020/07/27/covid19-concerns-about-l...