Respiratory infections
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People with chronic respiratory disease are at risk of developing a severe form of respiratory complication from COVID-19 infection.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 min
On the occasion of the 25th French Language Pulmonology Congress which will be held on Friday January 29 in Lille, we are talking about respiratory infections.
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People with chronic respiratory disease such as asthma or COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) are at risk of developing a serious form of respiratory complication from COVID-19 infection.
What can be the pulmonary sequelae?
How to take care of these patients?
Pr Chantal Raherison
,
pulmonologist in the
Respiratory Diseases Department, cardio-thoracic center, at Bordeaux University Hospital
.
Has just been appointed president of the
French-speaking pneumology society
Pr Jean-Marie Kayembé,
Head of the pneumology service at the Kinshasa university clinics in the DRC.
Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Kinshasa.
And professor of Pneumology, respiratory physiology and occupational diseases
At the end of the program, we find the sexuality chronicle of
Dr Catherine Solano
, sexologist.
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