Ventilation/perfusion mismatch is not the sole reason for hypoxaemia in early stage COVID-19 patients

Gurgen Harutyunyan; Varsenik Harutyunyan; Garnik Harutyunyan; Andrés Sánchez Gimeno; Artur Cherkezyan; Spartak Petrosyan; Anatoli Gnuni; Suren Soghomonyan

doi:10.1183/16000617.0277-2021

Ventilation/perfusion mismatch is not the sole reason for hypoxaemia in early stage COVID-19 patients

Eur Respir Rev. 2022 Jun 28;31(164):210277. doi: 10.1183/16000617.0277-2021. Print 2022 Jun 30.

Authors

Gurgen Harutyunyan¹, Varsenik Harutyunyan², Garnik Harutyunyan², Andrés Sánchez Gimeno³, Artur Cherkezyan⁴, Spartak Petrosyan⁵, Anatoli Gnuni⁶, Suren Soghomonyan⁷

Affiliations

¹ Hospital 9 de Octubre, VITHAS, Emergency Dept, Valencia, Spain varsenik@hotmail.es.
² Universitat De València, Faculty of Pharmacy, Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.
³ Hospital 9 de Octubre, VITHAS, Emergency Dept, Valencia, Spain.
⁴ Erebouni medical center, Dept of Anesthesiology, Yerevan, Armenia.
⁵ National Center for Infection Diseases (Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia), Yerevan, Armenia.
⁶ Ministry of Health, Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia.
⁷ The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, USA.

Abstract

The transformation of alveolar microcirculation to a peripheral circulation type in COVID-19 patients leads to important decreases in haemoglobin–oxygen affinity and provokes biochemical shunt https://bit.ly/3jE53pe

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Hypoxia / diagnosis
Hypoxia / etiology
Lung
Perfusion
Respiration