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Medical experts in the country have called for an urgent rethink of a key term that is in use to describe Covid-linked lung damage. ‘Post-Covid lung fibrosis’ indicates lung scarring after an infection, but doctors now believe it is wrong to call every Covid-triggered lung scarring ‘fibrosis’.
They say fibrosis is lasting damage from a lung infection or injury that usually doesn’t heal easily, but lung scarring in a majority of those who have recovered from Covid-19 (as much as 90% of cases) has gone away completely, with lungs resetting to normal. The term fibrosis could trigger alarm and it is time to carefully grade severity of impact, doctors now say. The Indian Radiological and Imaging Association (IRIA) is even thinking of replacing ‘post-Covid fibrosis’ with a more “apt term” in chestcomputed tomography (CT) scan reports. IRIA national president Deepak Patkar said ‘post-Covid interstitial lung disease’ (PC-ILD) or ‘post-Covid ILD’ would seem “more