The successful rehabilitation of a 75-year-old female with debilitating long COVID: A case report

A 75-year-old previously healthy female became severely ill, functionally dependent, and required long-term home oxygen therapy, after recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with acute respiratory failure and extensive pulmonary fibrosis. After two months of respiratory muscle training an...

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Autores principales: Hsu, Wan-Ling, Chang, Yi-Wei, Horng, Yi-Shiung, Hsu, Yu-Ting, Wu, Pao-Sheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8800380/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35105498
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2022.01.016
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description A 75-year-old previously healthy female became severely ill, functionally dependent, and required long-term home oxygen therapy, after recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with acute respiratory failure and extensive pulmonary fibrosis. After two months of respiratory muscle training and a comprehensive cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program, her dyspnea, physical performance, pulmonary function parameters, and activities of daily living rapidly improved. This Case highlights the importance of a timely active rehabilitation program for COVID-19 survivors experiencing the long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID).
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spelling pubmed-88003802022-01-31 The successful rehabilitation of a 75-year-old female with debilitating long COVID: A case report Hsu, Wan-Ling Chang, Yi-Wei Horng, Yi-Shiung Hsu, Yu-Ting Wu, Pao-Sheng J Formos Med Assoc Case Report A 75-year-old previously healthy female became severely ill, functionally dependent, and required long-term home oxygen therapy, after recovery from coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) with acute respiratory failure and extensive pulmonary fibrosis. After two months of respiratory muscle training and a comprehensive cardiopulmonary rehabilitation program, her dyspnea, physical performance, pulmonary function parameters, and activities of daily living rapidly improved. This Case highlights the importance of a timely active rehabilitation program for COVID-19 survivors experiencing the long-term effects of coronavirus (long COVID). Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. 2022-07 2022-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC8800380/ /pubmed/35105498 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfma.2022.01.016 Text en © 2022 Formosan Medical Association. Published by Elsevier Taiwan LLC. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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