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Severe COVID-19: How are these patients today Cover

Severe COVID-19: How are these patients today

Pneumologia
Volume 73 (2024): Issue 1 (January 2024)
By: Sara Andreia Góis Morgado,  Margarida V. Matias,  Eva Brysch,  Ana A. Santos,  João Sousa Torres,  Marta Rebelo,  Eduarda Carmo and  Fernando Nogueira  
Open Access
|Apr 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pneum-2025-0002 | Journal eISSN: 2247-059X | Journal ISSN: 2067-2993
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Language: English
Page range: 8 - 16
Published on: Apr 16, 2025
Published by: Romanian Society of Pneumology
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: Volume open
Keywords:
long COVID,
respiratory impairment,
pulmonary fibrosis,
severe COVID-19,
follow-up assessment
Related subjects:
Medicine,
Clinical medicine,
Clinical medicine, other,
Internal medicine,
Pneumology

© 2025 Sara Andreia Góis Morgado, Margarida V. Matias, Eva Brysch, Ana A. Santos, João Sousa Torres, Marta Rebelo, Eduarda Carmo, Fernando Nogueira, published by Romanian Society of Pneumology
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