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SUBMITTER: Rello J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7236837 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rello Jordi J Storti Enrico E Belliato Mirko M Serrano Ricardo R
The European respiratory journal 20200521 5
Patients with COVID-19 present a broad spectrum of clinical presentation. Whereas hypoxaemia is the marker of severity, different strategies of management should be customised to five specific individual phenotypes. Many intubated patients present with phenotype 4, characterised by pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction, being associated with severe hypoxaemia with "normal" (>40 mL·cmH<sub>2</sub>O<sup>-1</sup>) lung compliance and likely representing pulmonary microvascular thrombosis. Phenotype 5 ...[more]