According to the Guardian, experts say that “in a young, low-risk population with continuous symptoms, almost 70% of individuals have involvement of one or more organs four months after the initial symptoms infection with Sars-Cov-2 “. The most affected organs are the heart, lungs, liver and pancreas.
“There are implications not only for cases of prolonged covid, but also for public health approaches that have assumed that young people without adjacent diseases are at low risk,” says the document.
“The good news is that the compromise is mild“, said the cardiologist and professor at University College London Amitada Banerjee.” But even with a watchful eye, there is some compromise and in 25% of people it affects two or more organs […] This is interesting because we need to know if [essas deficiências] persist or are improving – or if there is a subset of people who can get worse “.
Symptoms also seen in the most severe cases
The Guardian reveals that another study that looked at 58 patients who were hospitalized with covid-19 also noticed symptoms in the volunteers months after the illness. About 60% had similar sequelae in the lungs, 29% in the kidneys, 26% in the heart and 10% in the liver, two to three months after the initial infection. Tissue changes in parts of the brain have also been noted.
“The initial findings of a study that examined the long-term impact of Covid-19 revealed that a large proportion of patients with covid-19 who were discharged from the hospital still had symptoms of shortness of breath, fatigue, anxiety and depression two to three months after contracting the virus“, says the C-MORE study, conducted by the University of Oxford.
It remains to be seen what the profile of the patients most affected is, whether they were really free of other health problems before they were infected with the new coronavirus and whether these prolonged symptoms will be sequels in the long term or only in the medium term.
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