Lung abnormalities have been discovered in long COVID patients suffering from breathlessness
Xenon behaves similarly to oxygen, allowing radiologists to observe how it moves from the lungs and into the bloodstream.
Researchers used the colourless, odourless, tasteless and chemically non-reactive gas xenon to investigate possible lung damage in patients who have not been admitted to hospital but still experience the symptom. Initial results of the Explain study suggest there is significantly impaired gas transfer in the lungs to the bloodstream in long COVID patients - despite other tests including CT scans coming back normal.
"These patients have never been in hospital and did not have an acute severe illness when they had their COVID-19 infection.
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