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Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019

Coronaviruses (CoV) belong to the coronavirus genus of the coronaviridae family. All CoVs are pleomorphic RNA viruses containing crown-like peplomers of 80-160 nm in size. This virus is a zoonotic pathogen seen with a wide range of clinical features from asymptomatic state to intensive care in human...

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Autor principal: Yurdaisik, Isil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7294887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32550054
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8134
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description Coronaviruses (CoV) belong to the coronavirus genus of the coronaviridae family. All CoVs are pleomorphic RNA viruses containing crown-like peplomers of 80-160 nm in size. This virus is a zoonotic pathogen seen with a wide range of clinical features from asymptomatic state to intensive care in humans. So far, seven human coronaviruses have been identified with the last one being Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). These pathogens typically lead to mild disease, but SARS and MERS type coronaviruses have caused severe respiratory disease and even mortality within the last 20 years. COVID-19 virus has rapidly spread worldwide after China and is continuing to cause huge economical and social impacts. Given the scarcity of resources including healthcare staff, hospital capacities, test kits, etc., timely diagnosis and treatment of this virus are of paramount importance. However, there is no vaccination or drug developed for the treatment of this disease up to today. Because the spreading rate of the virus is very high worldwide and there is no definitive treatment, diagnosis becomes even more important. The objective of this review is to evaluate the use of chest computed tomography, one of the commonly used radiologic imaging modalities, in the diagnosis of COVID-19 in light with the current literatüre.
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spelling pubmed-72948872020-06-16 Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019 Yurdaisik, Isil Cureus Radiology Coronaviruses (CoV) belong to the coronavirus genus of the coronaviridae family. All CoVs are pleomorphic RNA viruses containing crown-like peplomers of 80-160 nm in size. This virus is a zoonotic pathogen seen with a wide range of clinical features from asymptomatic state to intensive care in humans. So far, seven human coronaviruses have been identified with the last one being Coronavirus-2019 (COVID-19). These pathogens typically lead to mild disease, but SARS and MERS type coronaviruses have caused severe respiratory disease and even mortality within the last 20 years. COVID-19 virus has rapidly spread worldwide after China and is continuing to cause huge economical and social impacts. Given the scarcity of resources including healthcare staff, hospital capacities, test kits, etc., timely diagnosis and treatment of this virus are of paramount importance. However, there is no vaccination or drug developed for the treatment of this disease up to today. Because the spreading rate of the virus is very high worldwide and there is no definitive treatment, diagnosis becomes even more important. The objective of this review is to evaluate the use of chest computed tomography, one of the commonly used radiologic imaging modalities, in the diagnosis of COVID-19 in light with the current literatüre. Cureus 2020-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7294887/ /pubmed/32550054 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8134 Text en Copyright © 2020, Yurdaisik et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019
title_full Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019
title_fullStr Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019
title_full_unstemmed Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019
title_short Effectiveness of Computed Tomography in the Diagnosis of Novel Coronavirus-2019
title_sort effectiveness of computed tomography in the diagnosis of novel coronavirus-2019
topic Radiology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7294887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32550054
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8134
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