Thoracic Research and Practice
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Clinical Course of Coronavirus disease 2019 C-19 in Patients with Bronchiectasis

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Akdeniz University Faculty of Medicine, Antalya, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Manisa Celal Bayar University Faculty of Medicine, Manisa, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmonology, İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey

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Department of Chest Diseases, Erciyes University School of Medicine, Kayseri, Turkey

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Süreyyapaşa Chest Diseases and Chest Surgery Training and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Koç University Faculty of Medicine, İstanbul, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Faculty of Medicine, Rize, Türkiye

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Department of Pulmoner Medicine, Gazi University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Türkiye

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Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Göğüs Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı, İzmir, Türkiye

Thorac Res Pract 2024; 25: 184-187
DOI: 10.5152/ThoracResPract.2024.23054
Read: 778 Downloads: 655 Published: 02 September 2024

Objective: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the whole world and caused the death of more than 6 million people. The disease has been observed to have a more severe course in patients with chronic lung diseases. There are limited data regarding COVID-19 in patients with bronchiectasis. The aim of this article is to investigate the course of COVID-19 and factors affecting the clinical outcome in patients with bronchiectasis.

Material and Methods: This study was conducted using the Turkish Adult Bronchiectasis Database (TEBVEB) to which 25 centers in Türkiye contributed between March 2019 and January 2022. The database consisted of 1035 patients, and COVID-19-related data were recorded for 606 patients.

Results: One hundred nineteen (19.6%) of the bronchiectasis patients (64 female, mean age 57.3 ± 13.9) had COVID-19. Patients with bronchiectasis who developed COVID-19 more frequently had other comorbidities (P = .034). They also more frequently had cystic bronchiectasis (P = .009) and their Bronchiectasis Severity Index was significantly higher (P = .019). Eighty-two (68.9%) of the patients who had COVID-19 were followed up in the outpatient clinic, 27 (22.7%) in the inpatient ward and 10 (8.4%) patients in the intensive care unit. There tended to be a higher percentage of males among patients admitted to the hospital (P = .073); similarly, the mean age of the patients admitted to the hospital was also higher (60.8 vs 55.8 years for the outpatients), but these differences did not reach statistical significance (P = .071).

Conclusion: In conclusion, this study showed that severe bronchiectasis, presence of cystic bronchiectasis and worse Bronchiectasis Severity Index are associated with the development of COVID-19, but not with the severity of infection.

Cite this article as: Çakır Edis E, Çilli A, Kızılırmak D, et al. Clinical course of coronavirus disease 2019 in patients with bronchiectasis. Thorac Res Pract. 2024;25(5):184-187.

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