Home monitoring of lung mechanics by oscillometry before, during and after severe COVID-19 disease: a case study

Chiara Veneroni; Roberto Perissin; Fabiano Di Marco; Raffaele L Dellaca'

doi:10.1183/23120541.00480-2022

Home monitoring of lung mechanics by oscillometry before, during and after severe COVID-19 disease: a case study

ERJ Open Res. 2023 Apr 11;9(2):00480-2022. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00480-2022. eCollection 2023 Mar.

Authors

Chiara Veneroni¹, Roberto Perissin², Fabiano Di Marco^{3

4

5}, Raffaele L Dellaca'^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ TechRes Lab, Department of Electronics, Information and Biomedical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano University, Milan, Italy.
² MGC Diagnostics Corp, St. Paul, MN, USA.
³ Unit of Pneumology, Azienda Ospedaliera Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
⁴ Department of Health Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
⁵ These authors contributed equally.

Abstract

A patient regularly self-performing home oscillometry developed severe COVID-19 pneumonia and continued testing during and after the disease. COVID-19 suddenly worsened oscillatory reactance, which took almost 1 year to recover to pre-COVID-19 values. https://bit.ly/3WCpWC0.