Time to negative conversion and cardiopulmonary performance in athletes with COVID-19

Pasquale Mone; Leonardo Bencivenga; Gaetano Santulli; Giuseppe Rengo; Germano Guerra; Klara Komici

doi:10.1183/23120541.00090-2024

Time to negative conversion and cardiopulmonary performance in athletes with COVID-19

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Jul 22;10(4):00090-2024. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00090-2024. eCollection 2024 Jul.

Authors

Pasquale Mone^{1

2}, Leonardo Bencivenga³, Gaetano Santulli^{4

5}, Giuseppe Rengo^{3

6}, Germano Guerra¹, Klara Komici¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy.
² Casa di Cura "Montevergine", Mercogliano, Avellino, Italy.
³ Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
⁴ Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
⁵ Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples "Federico II", Naples, Italy.
⁶ Istituti Clinici Scientifici Maugeri IRCCS - Scientific Institute of Telese, Terme, Italy.

Abstract

Athletes with longer time to negative conversion for COVID-19 do not present reduction of exercise capacity. However, respiratory and ventilatory parameters are modified. https://bit.ly/3TMdrFL.