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SUBMITTER: Herrmann J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7336708 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Early stages of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been associated with 'silent hypoxia' and poor oxygenation despite relatively small fractions of afflicted lung. Although it has been speculated that such paradoxical findings may be explained by impairment of hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction in infected lungs regions, no studies have confirmed this hypothesis nor determined whether such extreme degrees of perfusion redistribution are physiologically plausible. Here, we present a ma ...[more]