Abstract:The COVID-19 pandemic surprised everyone with a severe lung compromise giving rise to gasping and death from respiratory insufficiency. The understanding of lung compromise is essential to advances in the field of pneumology. It is well known that the SARS-CoV-2 adheres through its spikes to the ACE-2 receptors of type II pneumocytes and introduces its RNAm material in search of its reproduction. Pneumolysis, defined as “lung destruction”, is the mechanism whereby the virus utilizes the alveolar cells to repro… Show more
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