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Clinical phenotypes of SARS-CoV-2: implications for clinicians and researchers

2020; European Respiratory Society; Volume: 55; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1183/13993003.01028-2020

1399-3003

Jordi Rello, Enrico Storti, Mirko Belliato, Ricardo Serrano,

COVID-19 and healthcare impacts

Patients with COVID-19 present a broad spectrum of clinical presentation. Whereas hypoxaemia is the marker of severity, different strategies of management should be customised to five specific individual phenotypes. Many intubated patients present with phenotype 4, characterised by pulmonary hypoxic vasoconstriction, being associated with severe hypoxaemia with "normal" (>40 mL·cmH2O-1) lung compliance and likely representing pulmonary microvascular thrombosis. Phenotype 5 is often associated with high plasma procalcitonin and has low pulmonary compliance, Which is a result of co-infection or acute lung injury after noninvasive ventilation. Identifying these clinical phenotypes and applying a personalised approach would benefit the optimisation of therapies and improve outcomes.