COVID-19 positive patient with varied complications recovers after 116 days: Case Report
Maharashtra: In a case study, published in the Journal of the Association of Physicians of India, an Indian researcher described the case of a 35-year-old male patient who was COVID-19 positive and took 116 days of in-hospital stay to recover from illness in spite of having all possible complications.
In patients who are moderate to severely affected by COVID-19, the disease causes respiratory infection and distress. In such patients, there is acute lung injury followed by ARDS. Cytokine storm causes severe hypoxemia with tachypnea, tachycardia, body ache, fever, and multi-organ involvement in such patients. To support respiration in these patients, very high oxygen support is required and some need invasive ventilation. Ventilated patients have an extremely high mortality rate. Survivors may develop complications like secondary infections with bacteria as well as fungus, pulmonary embolism, pneumothorax, and lung fibrosis. These add to the days of recovery and increased mortality.
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