Journal of Brachial Plexus and Peripheral Nerve Injury (Jan 2024)

Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic in Patients with a Previous Phrenic Nerve Transfer for a Traumatic Brachial Plexus Palsy

  • Mariano Socolovsky,
  • Johnny Chuieng-Yi Lu,
  • Francisco Zarra,
  • Chen Kuan Wei,
  • Tommy Nai-Jen Chang,
  • David Chwei-Chin Chuang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1055/s-0044-1787296
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 19, no. 01
pp. e20 – e26

Abstract

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Background With the advent of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, some doubts have been raised regarding the potential respiratory problems that patients who previously underwent a phrenic nerve transfer could have.

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