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At the university hospital in Innsbruck, six active divers were examined after their corona infection.
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The Austrian doctor Frank Hartig discovers irreversible damage to the lungs of the divers on X-rays. (Icon image)
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This would not allow them to go diving in the distant future.
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Therefore divers, but also other amateur athletes, should have them examined, even if they only had mild symptoms.
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Those who are infected with Covid-19 usually only notice cold symptoms, others do not even feel that they carry the pathogen. The Austrian doctor Frank Hartig is now warning that some corona sufferers would suffer long-term damage, as the APA news agency reports.
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Hartig heads the emergency department of the Innsbruck University Hospital and is the head of the crisis there for Covid 19 patients. Among them were six active divers – none of which were serious. They were able to cure the disease at home.
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“The damage to the lungs is irreversible”
After more than five weeks, the divers were recovered. Hartig asks her to come to the hospital for a small check-up. Then there was the terrible finding of the X-rays: “The damage to the lungs is irreversible,” says Hartig of the APA.
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Although the divers are only mild COVID-19 cases, they have had serious lung damage, the doctor said. This would not allow them to go diving in the distant future.
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Corona recovered should be examined afterwards
“As an emergency doctor with 20 years of experience, you swallow when you see something like this in a 40-year-old patient,” says Hardy. To what extent long-term damage to the lungs remains is unclear and is currently speculative. Hartig: “We don’t know how much of the changes will last.”
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But when he saw the X-ray findings, it was difficult for him to believe that the patient’s lungs would heal completely. His team will now examine other people who have recovered from corona, but a study on this will not be available until next year.
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Hartig already warns divers, but also other hobby athletes: “After a surviving corona infection, you should definitely have a thorough examination, even if you had only mild symptoms.” (sib)
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