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Table 5 Final diagnosis/outcome after all the endoscopic examinations related to the indication for the first bronchoscopy

From: Bronchoscopy in the post-acute phase of COVID-19: an observational study

Patients number

Indication for the first bronchoscopy

Final diagnosis/endoscopic outcome after all the bronchoscopies

5

Suspected tracheal stenosis

5 tracheal stenosis (1 treated with laser with relapse)

2

Therapeutic management of tracheal stenosis

2 (1 treated with laser; 1 with APC)

8

Follow-up of a known tracheal stenosis/tracheostomy complication

4 granulomas (2 removed with APC), 4 stenosis

2

Assistance during decannulation

2 patients decannulated

1

Haemoptysis

1 sarcoidosis

14

Parenchymal infiltrates at chest imaging persistent after the resolution of acute disease

3 Lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)

4 LRTI

4 ILD (2 NSIP, 2 organizing pneumonia)

3 Residual non-specific post-COVID19 fibrosis

8

Clinical-radiological suspicion of late infections

6 LRTI

1 ILD (organizing pneumonia)

1 Tracheal stenosis and LRTI

3

Atelectasis

1 Lung cancer (adenocarcinoma)

2 Obstructive atelectasis (mucus plug removal)

2

Presence of lymphadenopathies at CT scan

2 sarcoidosis

  1. APC: Argon Plasma Coagulation; LRTI: lower respiratory tract infection: ILD: interstitial lung disease; NSIP: non-specific interstitial pneumonia; COVID-19: coronavirus disease – 2019; CT: computed tomography