%0 Journal Article %A Swapna Mandal %A Joseph Barnett %A Simon E Brill %A Jeremy S Brown %A Emma K Denneny %A Samanjit S Hare %A Melissa Heightman %A Toby E Hillman %A Joseph Jacob %A Hannah C Jarvis %A Marc C I Lipman %A Sindhu B Naidu %A Arjun Nair %A Joanna C Porter %A Gillian S Tomlinson %A John R Hurst %A , %T ‘Long-COVID’: a cross-sectional study of persisting symptoms, biomarker and imaging abnormalities following hospitalisation for COVID-19 %D 2020 %R 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-215818 %J Thorax %P thoraxjnl-2020-215818 %X Large numbers of people are being discharged from hospital following COVID-19 without assessment of recovery. In 384 patients (mean age 59.9 years; 62% male) followed a median 54 days post discharge, 53% reported persistent breathlessness, 34% cough and 69% fatigue. 14.6% had depression. In those discharged with elevated biomarkers, 30.1% and 9.5% had persistently elevated d-dimer and C reactive protein, respectively. 38% of chest radiographs remained abnormal with 9% deteriorating. Systematic follow-up after hospitalisation with COVID-19 identifies the trajectory of physical and psychological symptom burden, recovery of blood biomarkers and imaging which could be used to inform the need for rehabilitation and/or further investigation. %U https://thorax.bmj.com/content/thoraxjnl/early/2020/11/09/thoraxjnl-2020-215818.full.pdf