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Impact of COVID-19 social distancing measures on lung transplant recipients
- Area: Covid
- Area: Covid
Strong reduction in respiratory viruses during social distancing was associated with stabilisation of lung function in lung transplant recipients, suggesting a possibly more important role for these infections in lung function decline than previously appreciated.
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) social distancing measures led to a dramatic decline in non-COVID-19 respiratory virus infections, providing a unique opportunity to study their impact on annual forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) decline, episodes of temporary drop in lung function (TDLF) suggestive of infection and chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) in lung transplant recipients (LTRs).
