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| Announcement: 'We Have Been Seeing a Lot of Collapsed Lungs With COVID-19' |
| Posted: Rossoe @ Sun Aug 09, 2020 1:13 pm |
Dr. Hesham A. Hassaballa a NY Times featured Pulmonary and Critical Care Specialist working in Illinois writes a great blog at https://medium.com/@drhassaballa
More recently he's posted many interesting articles on the subject of Covid-19.
And one of particular interest covered the increase in collapsed lungs in more seriously affected patients:
https://medium.com/beingwell/we-have-been-seeing-a-lot-of-collapsed-lungs-with-covid-7043dee6f227
He discusses not only the potential mechanical reason for this:
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Many times, this can happen when patients are on the ventilator: the high pressures generated by the machine can cause the lungs to rupture and cause lung collapse. |
But also poses some thoughts on why this might be happening more with Covid-19 pateients at a cellular level:
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Our immune fighting cells secrete many enzymes that can destroy healthy lung tissue. These cells don’t care about causing “collateral damage.” |
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