TY - JOUR AU - Sahu, Kamal Kant AU - Mishra, Ajay Kumar AU - Martin, Kevin AU - Chastain, Iryna PY - 2020/06/29 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - COVID-19 and restrictive lung disease: A deadly combo to trip off the fine balance JF - Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease JA - Monaldi Arch Chest Dis VL - 90 IS - 2 SE - COVID-19 - Collection of articles on the Coronavirus outbreak DO - 10.4081/monaldi.2020.1346 UR - https://www.monaldi-archives.org/macd/article/view/1346 SP - AB - <p class="p1">Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has so far led to&nbsp;innumerable deaths worldwide. The risk factors so far that have been most studied as poor prognostic factors are old age, individuals&nbsp;with multiple comorbidities and immunocompromised patients. Amongst the chronic lung diseases, most patients with&nbsp;COVID-19 reported so far had asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and interstitial lung disease. Herein, we&nbsp;discuss the significance of restrictive lung disease during the COVID-19 pandemic as a potential risk factor <em>via</em> an example of&nbsp;a patient with kyphoscoliosis who succumbed to death due to COVID-19 pneumonia.</p> ER -