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Abstract
Most people who develop COVID-19 fully recover, but current evidence suggests approximately 10–20% of people experience a variety of mid and long-term effects after they recover from their initial illness[1]. Long COVID can include a wide range of ongoing health problems; these conditions can last weeks, months, or years.
study was carried out in chest department Assuit university hospital between May 2020 to January 2023.
In this study we enrolled 115 patients with COVID -19 infection. Those patients were followed up for 1 month, 3 months and 6 months for post covid manifestations.
All the enrolled patients in the study were subjected to history taking, clinical evaluation and investigations including PCR, HRCT, oxygen saturation and 6-minute walking saturation, routine laboratory investigations and inflammatory markers.
Statistical analysis was performed using IBM SPSS software version 22.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago,IL).
The aims of the study were to Identify and evaluate clinical pattern of post covid patient and assess functional assessment of post covid patients.
This study included two groups: group1(mild group) and group2(moderate and severe group). Group2 shows significant increase in median age, male population, BMI and crowding index.
Moreover, group2 shows significant increase in comorbidities of D.M, hypertension, COPD, Pulmonary embolism while the mild group shows significant increase in the comorbidity of Gastroesophageal reflux disease and both group shows insignificant difference in the frequency of asthma.
There was significant increase in WBC, neutrophil/lymphocytic ratio, CRP, ferritin, D-Dimer, AST, PT, PC, INR, BUN and creatinine in group2.