Reply: Intrapulmonary shunt and alveolar dead space in a cohort of patients with acute COVID-19 pneumonitis and early recovery

Eur Respir J. 2023 Feb 9;61(2):2202287. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02287-2022. Print 2023 Feb.

Piotr Harbut¹, G Kim Prisk², Robert Lindwall¹, Sarah Hamzei¹, Jenny Palmgren¹, Catherine E Farrow^{3

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5}, Goran Hedenstierna^{6

7}, Terence C Amis^{3

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5}, Atul Malhotra², Peter D Wagner², Kristina Kairaitis^{8

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¹ Karolinska Institutet, Danderyd Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
² University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
³ Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia.
⁴ Department of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, Australia.
⁵ Sydney Medical School, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
⁶ University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden.
⁷ Deceased.
⁸ Ludwig Engel Centre for Respiratory Research, Westmead Institute for Medical Research, Sydney, Australia kristina.kairaitis@sydney.edu.au.

Abstract

Increased dead space following COVID-19 may be due to microvascular injury or secondary micro-ischaemia https://bit.ly/3Fypdwz