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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Boning D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9225162 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of clinical medicine 20220613 12
Ceruti et al. describe in their article very low standard half saturation pressures (P<sub>50</sub>) in COVID-19 patients, calculated with the Dash et al. equations. By using the Hill equation and Severinghaus' coefficients we obtained normal values. The authors who do not present a pathophysiological cause for their results should explain this discrepancy. Independent of the absolute values a continuous moderate decrease of P<sub>50</sub> in the surviving patients might be of clinical importanc ...[more]