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A silent march-Post covid fibrosis in asymptomatics – A cause for concern?

We report a case series of patients presenting with undiagnosed pulmonary fibrosis as a primary manifestation. On evaluation, after excluding other causes, the fibrosis was attributed to asymptomatic or mild COVID illness in the past. This case series serves to highlight the difficulties posed to cl...

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Autores principales: Antony, Thomas, Vishak Acharya, K., Unnikrishnan, B., Keerthi, N.S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9131542/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37100584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2022.05.004
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author Antony, Thomas
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description We report a case series of patients presenting with undiagnosed pulmonary fibrosis as a primary manifestation. On evaluation, after excluding other causes, the fibrosis was attributed to asymptomatic or mild COVID illness in the past. This case series serves to highlight the difficulties posed to clinicians while evaluating pulmonary fibrosis in the post-COVID era, more so in mild to asymptomatic COVID-19. The intriguing possibility of fibrosis setting even in mild to asymptomatic COVID is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-91315422022-05-26 A silent march-Post covid fibrosis in asymptomatics – A cause for concern? Antony, Thomas Vishak Acharya, K. Unnikrishnan, B. Keerthi, N.S. Indian J Tuberc Case Report We report a case series of patients presenting with undiagnosed pulmonary fibrosis as a primary manifestation. On evaluation, after excluding other causes, the fibrosis was attributed to asymptomatic or mild COVID illness in the past. This case series serves to highlight the difficulties posed to clinicians while evaluating pulmonary fibrosis in the post-COVID era, more so in mild to asymptomatic COVID-19. The intriguing possibility of fibrosis setting even in mild to asymptomatic COVID is discussed. Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. 2023-04 2022-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC9131542/ /pubmed/37100584 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijtb.2022.05.004 Text en © 2022 Tuberculosis Association of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 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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title_fullStr A silent march-Post covid fibrosis in asymptomatics – A cause for concern?
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