Journal of Respiratory Diseases
Open Access
Two-Phase Lung Damage Mechanisms For COVID-19 Disease, and Driving Force and Selectivity in Leukecyte Recruitment and Migration
Mar 2022 DOI 10.14302/issn.2642-9241.jrd-22-4132
Jianqing WuCorresponding author
To understand lung damages caused by COVID-19, we deduced two phases lung damage mechanisms. After the lungs are infected with COVID-19, the affected lung tissue swells and surface properties of pulmonary capillaries change, both contributing to an increased flow resistance of the capillaries. The i…