SARS-CoV-2:

Roi Soto-Feijóo1, Elisa Landín1, Honorio Martínez-Martínez1

  • 1Pulmonology Department, University Clinical Hospital of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Journal of thoracic disease
|December 11, 2025
PubMed
概括

在重症急性呼吸道综合征冠状病毒2 (SARS-CoV-2) 患者中,胸腔溢液 (PE) 在男性中很常见,并且通常是单边的. 这种情况表明预后不佳,并且与2019年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 病例的死亡率增加有关.

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