The long-term effects of respiratory viral infections such as COVID-19 are a major public health burden. Some estimates suggest over 65 million people around the world suffer from long COVID-19.

Their study has discovered that subtle changes in lung scarring over just one year, as measured by quantitative computed tomography imaging, are strongly linked to future lung-function decline and ...

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The investigators also reported that LTI-03 helped preserve alveolar epithelial type II (AT2) progenitor cells, which are essential for lung repair and regeneration. Current IPF therapies primarily ...

LUBBOCK, Texas. - A Texas doctor is noticing a pattern in her patients that could reveal another possible devastating side effect of COVID-19: severely scarred lungs. Dr. Brittany Bankhead-Kendall, a ...

LAFAYETTE HILL, Pa. (WPVI) -- Pulmonary fibrosis turns the lungs to scar tissue, making it harder and harder to breathe. Help may be on the way, however. A drug being tested locally aims at giving ...

What does "Pulmonary Fibrosis" mean? The word “pulmonary” means lung and the word “fibrosis” means scar tissue— similar to scars that form on the skin from an old injury or surgery. So, in its ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Harish Narasimhan, University of Virginia (THE CONVERSATION) The long-term effects of ...