COVID-19 and restrictive lung disease: A deadly combo to trip off the fine balance

Monaldi Arch Chest Dis. 2020 Jun 29;90(2). doi: 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1346.

Abstract

Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has so far led to innumerable deaths worldwide. The risk factors so far that have been most studied as poor prognostic factors are old age, individuals with multiple comorbidities and immunocompromised patients. Amongst the chronic lung diseases, most patients with COVID-19 reported so far had asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and interstitial lung disease. Herein, we discuss the significance of restrictive lung disease during the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential risk factor via an example of a patient with kyphoscoliosis who succumbed to death due to COVID-19 pneumonia.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Betacoronavirus
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • Clinical Laboratory Techniques
  • Coronavirus Infections / complications*
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnosis
  • Coronavirus Infections / diagnostic imaging
  • Coronavirus Infections / physiopathology
  • Electrocardiography
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Kyphosis / complications*
  • Kyphosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Kyphosis / physiopathology
  • Lung Diseases / complications*
  • Lung Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Diseases / physiopathology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pandemics
  • Pneumonia, Viral / complications*
  • Pneumonia, Viral / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumonia, Viral / physiopathology
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Risk Factors
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Scoliosis / complications*
  • Scoliosis / diagnostic imaging
  • Scoliosis / physiopathology
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed