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Beside the tissue inflammation-disturbed oxygen supply, severe hypoxemia in COVID-19 often results from pneumonia with bilateral interstitial infiltrates causing serious alterations in ventilation-perfusion ratio and severe ARDS [22], which exacerbates hypoxemia [23]. Cardiac complications may also be part...