COVID-19 and restrictive lung disease: A deadly combo to trip off the fine balance.
Monaldi Arch Chest Dis
; 90(2)2020 Jun 29.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-620721
ABSTRACT
Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has so far led to innumerable deaths worldwide. The risk factors so far that have been most studied as poor prognostic factors are old age, individuals with multiple comorbidities and immunocompromised patients. Amongst the chronic lung diseases, most patients with COVID-19 reported so far had asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and interstitial lung disease. Herein, we discuss the significance of restrictive lung disease during the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential risk factor via an example of a patient with kyphoscoliosis who succumbed to death due to COVID-19 pneumonia.
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Pneumonia, Viral
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Scoliosis
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Coronavirus Infections
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Kyphosis
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Lung Diseases
Type of study:
Case report
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Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Topics:
Long Covid
Limits:
Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
English
Year:
2020
Document Type:
Article
Affiliation country:
Monaldi.2020.1346
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