Combined use of serum KL-6 and respiratory functional parameters for identifying fibrotic lung damage in SARS-CoV-2-induced interstitial pneumonia.

Sarcoidosis Vasc Diffuse Lung Dis · 2026 · PMC13101015 · PMID 41891415

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Stratifying PCPF and PC-nonPF patients according to request for IMV at hospital admission (Table s2), KL-6 concentrations tend to be higher in the subgroup of PCPF patients admitted in ICU for IMV (median (IQR), 546 (301, 737) U/mL) even if it did not reach statistical significance (p=0.18).

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