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Seen in the clinic after 6 weeks

We saw her six weeks after she was discharged from the hospital. She was

extremely well, no cough and no breathlessness. She started to work as usual. In
her recent chest x-ray, we could appreciate peripheral, very subtle consolidation

over the peripheries on the left lung. There is a restrictive pattern from the lung
function test: FVC: 64% (1.84L), DLco: 59%. FVC and DLco of less than 80% are
considered a restrictive ventilatory defect. Even though she had no symptom and

her chest x-ray was almost resolving radiologically, she still demonstrated
restrictive ventilatory defects on lung function. In her six-minute walk test, she can
walk up to 500 metres and the desaturation was not significant as the lowest value

was 93%.