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ArticleJornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia2022

Clinical, radiological, and transbronchial biopsy findings in patients with long COVID-19: a case series.

Bruno Guedes Baldi, Alexandre Todorovic Fabro, Andreia Craveiro Franco, Marília Helena C Machado, Robson Aparecido Prudente, Estefânia Thomé Franco, Sergio Ribeiro Marrone, Simone Alves do Vale, Talita Jacon Cezare, Marcelo Padovani de Toledo Moraes and 4 more

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Article in Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Bruno Guedes Baldi. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração - InCor - Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-9609-5117
Alexandre Todorovic Fabro. Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP - Ribeirão Preto (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-7687-3161
Andreia Craveiro Franco. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-4927-9108
Marília Helena C Machado. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0001-7749-9872
Robson Aparecido Prudente. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0003-1175-1435
Estefânia Thomé Franco. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-3847-539X
Sergio Ribeiro Marrone. Disciplina de Radiologia, Departamento de Dermatologia e Radioterapia, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0003-0732-2814
Simone Alves do Vale. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0001-9876-847X
Talita Jacon Cezare. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-4183-8542
Marcelo Padovani de Toledo Moraes. Departamento de Patologia e Medicina Legal, Faculdade de Medicina de Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo - USP - Ribeirão Preto (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0001-7598-7768
Eloara Vieira Machado Ferreira. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo - UNIFESP - São Paulo (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-3291-6473
André Luis Pereira Albuquerque. Divisão de Pneumologia, Instituto do Coração - InCor - Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0003-3486-5240
Marcio Valente Yamada Sawamura. Instituto de Radiologia, Hospital das Clínicas, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-9424-9776
Suzana Erico Tanni. Disciplina de Pneumologia, Departamento de Clínica Médica, Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Botucatu (SP) Brasil.ORCID 0000-0002-2587-2759
Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) · BRHospital das Clínicas da Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de São Paulo · BRUniversidade de Ribeirão Preto · BRUniversidade Federal de São Paulo · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This brief communication demonstrates the correlation of persistent respiratory symptoms with functional, tomographic, and transbronchial pulmonary biopsy findings in patients with COVID-19 who had a long follow-up period. We report a series of six COVID-19 patients with pulmonary involvement who presented with persistent dyspnea within 4-15 months of discharge. We performed transbronchial biopsies, and the histopathological pattern consistently demonstrated peribronchial remodeling with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis. Therefore, lung biopsy may be useful in the approach of patients with long COVID-19, although the type of procedure, its precise indication, and the moment to perform it are yet to be clarified. (Brazilian Registry of Clinical Trials-ReBEC; identifier: RBR-8j9kqy [http://www.ensaiosclinicos.gov.br]).

Indexed as

COVID-19Lung Diseases, InterstitialBiopsyHumansLungPost-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome

Identifiers

PMID35508067
PMCPMC9064656
OpenAlexW4221114713

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