Objective: This study investigated the consequences of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia on lung function in the first 6 months after hospital discharge.
Methods: A prospective lung function assessment in SARS-CoV2 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia, hospitalized between March and April 2020, was conducted with spirometry measurements including lung volumes, mainly total lung capacity (TLC), lung diffusion capacity for carbon monoxide (DL) collected at 3 months after hospital discharge. Patients with restrictive ventilatory defect or impaired DL or both were re-evaluated at 6 months with global spirometry and chest HRCT scan.
Results: Among 40 consecutive patients, 19 (48%) had normal pulmonary functional tests (group A), and 21 (52%) showed residual lung function abnormalities at 3 months after hospital discharge (group B). In group B, 4 patients (19%) had only loss of lung volume as shown by TLC reduction (group 1), 13 patients (62%) had decreased both TLC and DL (group 2), and 4 patients (19%) had isolated reduction in DL (group 3). At 6-month follow-up in group 1, although all patients improved, only one normalized total lung capacity (TLC). In group 2, TLC and DL increased significantly (p < 0.01), but only 3 patients reached normal values. In group 3, DL improved for most patients, normalizing in 50% of them. At 6-months significant correlations between an internal-built chest HRCT scan severity score and TLC (r = 0.33; p < 0.01) and DL (r = 0.32; p < 0.01) were found.
Conclusions: Nearly 50% of patients recovered in the post-critical phase. Most of those with abnormal pulmonary function tests at 3 months improved subsequently, but only another 29% (6 out of 21) reached normal values at 6 months. These results indicate that lung function spontaneous recovery is faster at first and occurs more slowly thereafter, leaving more than one third (15 out of 40) of patients with abnormal lung function tests at 6 months.
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