Visualizing exertional dyspnea in a post-COVID patient using electrical impedance tomography.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose and method

Many post-COVID patients suffer from dyspnea on exertion. To visualize exercise-induced dyspnea, a post-COVID patient and a healthy volunteer underwent an exercise test on a treadmill under stress relevant to everyday life monitored by electrical impedance tomography (EIT).

Results

The lung-healthy volunteer showed an even ventilation distribution throughout the assessment, a large ventilated area, and a butterfly-like lung shape with a convex lung rim. The post-COVID patient showed clear differences in the ventilated area compared to the control subject. During exercise, a constantly changing picture of differently ventilated areas is shown. However, especially the anterior regions were under-ventilated and larger areas were partially absent from ventilat

SUBMITTER: Gremme Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10665229 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature