Coronavirus patients return with complaints like shortness of breath, chest congestion, lungs damage, damage to the nerves of the brain, depression and heart aliments.
Coronavirus is known to attack the endothelial cells that line the blood vessels, leading to blood clots across the body. It affects other organs including the heart, kidney, brain and the gastrointestinal tract.
S Chatterjee, senior consultant, internal medicine of Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, and Jeenam Shah, consultant chest physician and interventional pulmonologist at Saifee, Wockhardt and Bhatia Hospitals in Mumbai said, ”We are seeing minor to major problems in the patients who have recovered from this contagious disease.”
They have seen that mostly the ”virus affecting the heart” and patients develop ”myocarditis” [inflammation of the heart tissue]. The degree could vary from mild to moderate, and it is the right side of the heart that is getting involved more than the left. ”Although none of the patients have become very serious with myocarditis, which is a feature they are seeing in follow-up patients”.
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Patients have reported dizziness, drop in blood pressure and problems related to brain. Even doctors across the country have reported that recovered patients are coming back with low oxygen saturation and secondary problems.
An incident came into light when a person in his mid 50’s was rushed to the emergency department of Max Hospital, Saket. “The patient had been admitted to the hospital for almost 20 days and had been discharged after he was doing well and all his symptoms had been resolved.”
”Yet, just a day after he had been discharged he was brought back to the hospital emergency with respiratory failure and died. Since his symptoms were the same as Covid-19, we got him tested again, but the report was negative,” said Dr Sandeep Jain, head of the department of emergency medicine at Max Super Speciality hospital.
Another condition which doctors have seen from Coronavirus recovered patients is ‘Residual Lung Fibrosis’ which decreases the capacity of the lung tissues to harden after healing from an injury. Doctors, scientists, pharmaceutical companies are working under acute pressure to manufacture the medicine soon in order to stop the spread of this virus.
Coronavirus vaccine has been developed successfully and is able to manage mice by protecting it from catching infection from SARS-COV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 in humans. However, today India has recorded the biggest spike of 62,000 new cases marking the total of 20.27 lakh while 41,000 people have died across the country.
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