{"id":8110,"date":"2025-02-26T16:16:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=8110"},"modified":"2025-04-23T04:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T08:55:18","slug":"imaging-shows-significant-lung-injury-in-kids-with-long-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/imaging-shows-significant-lung-injury-in-kids-with-long-covid\/","title":{"rendered":"Imaging shows significant lung injury in kids with long COVID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Children and teens with long COVID have significant lung abnormalities detected with an advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), called free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI. The findings were published yesterday in <i>Radiology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Though chest scans are used to diagnose and monitor lung function of adults with long COVID, they are less commonly used on children with persistent symptoms after COVID-19, which is also called post-COVID condition (PCC). Lung perfusion, or how blood flows in and out of the lungs, can thus be hard to detect in pediatric patients. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Children and teens with long COVID have significant lung abnormalities detected with an advanced form of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), called free-breathing phase-resolved functional lung (PREFUL) MRI. The findings were published yesterday in <i>Radiology<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Though chest scans are used to diagnose and monitor lung function of adults with long COVID, they are less commonly used on children with persistent symptoms after COVID-19, which is also called post-COVID condition (PCC). Lung perfusion, or how blood flows in and out of the lungs, can thus be hard to detect in pediatric patients. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/imaging-shows-significant-lung-injury-in-kids-with-long-covid\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Imaging shows significant lung injury in kids with long COVID<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,18,11,868,8,14],"class_list":["post-8110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-children","tag-covid-19","tag-long-covid","tag-pediatric-long-covid","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8110"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8490,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8110\/revisions\/8490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}