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Fibrotic Strands on Lungs
I am a Covid survivor with 90% lung involvement corad 22/25 diagnosed with post Covid lung fibrosis and Covid Pneumonia in 2021. I was under Home Oxygen Concentrator therapy for 3 months under medication with Nintedanib for lung fibrosis and recovered well in 2021 itself. Recently around 3 weeks ago I was suffering from fever and breathlessness for which I was given medication for bronchitis and fever. However I was still facing a breathlessness issue and underwent a CT Scan Chest. Report says
"Linear fibrotic strands with few linear opacities and ground glass opacities in
bilateral upper lobe , right middle lobe , lingular segment and bilateral lower lobe
predominantly basal segments.
- Post infective etiology with superimposed active infection. "
I was given medication with Acebrophylline. Still I feel breathlessness and feeling heaviness in my chest.
Please help me in resolving my health issue. Thanks for your kind support 🙏
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Need routine blood tests and sputum culture,Once you ruled out infection better undergo PFT(DLCO etc…if you are not able to do spirometry ) than based on that your doctor will decide on medication
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Dr. A Raja Prasanna Kumar
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46 yrs exp
Hyderabad
Pl consult.
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Dr. Anusha Kantheti
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9 yrs exp
Hyderabad
It’s looking like post Covid fibrosis may be ILD upon which recently got infected might be pneumonia.. could understand better if I can get HrCt chest films.. if it’s pneumonia, need to get few blood investigations done to know extent / depth of infection after which antibiotics need to be decided.. if u r feeling breathless , need to get abg done to know co2 n o2 levels n decide regarding oxygen/ Bipap/ NIV support
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