Progressive Hypoxia: A Pivotal Pathophysiologic Mechanism of COVID-19 Pneumonia

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: somers.virend@mayo.edu.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Internal Medicine, Brno Municipal Hospital of Merciful Brothers, Brno and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Medicine of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

Review

Virend K Somers et al. Mayo Clin Proc. 2020 Nov.

. 2020 Nov;95(11):2339-2342.

doi: 10.1016/j.mayocp.2020.09.015. Epub 2020 Sep 30.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN. Electronic address: somers.virend@mayo.edu.
² Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Department of Internal Medicine, Brno Municipal Hospital of Merciful Brothers, Brno and Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic.
³ Department of Respiratory and Critical Medicine of Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.

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