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Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms

BACKGROUND: After the spread of COVID-19 pneumonia, chest CT examination was used as a substantial non-invasive complement to RT-PCR for diagnosing and as a rapid screening tool when RT-PCR results are unavailable. Our study aimed at the analysis of the lung abnormalities detected by chest CT in COV...

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Autores principales: Dawoud, Mohammed Mahmoud, Dawoud, Tamer Mahmoud, Ali, Noha Yousef Amin, Nagy, Hanan Ahmad
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7705405/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43055-020-00359-z
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author Dawoud, Mohammed Mahmoud
Dawoud, Tamer Mahmoud
Ali, Noha Yousef Amin
Nagy, Hanan Ahmad
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description BACKGROUND: After the spread of COVID-19 pneumonia, chest CT examination was used as a substantial non-invasive complement to RT-PCR for diagnosing and as a rapid screening tool when RT-PCR results are unavailable. Our study aimed at the analysis of the lung abnormalities detected by chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia according to the severity and duration of symptoms. RESULTS: In the early phase (n = 60), 32 patients had negative CT findings and 28 patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 2.13. In the intermediate phase (n = 116), 4 patients had negative CT findings and 112 patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 16.08. In the late phase (n = 36), all patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 17.83. CT lung abnormalities were progressed on follow-up CT studies. We found a high total lung severity score in many patients with mild symptoms with a mean of 14.77 and a low total lung severity score in many patients with moderate to severe symptoms with a mean of 9.14. CONCLUSION: Chest CT should be used as a routine examination for diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia and follow-up of disease advance. The progression of lung abnormalities was related to the duration more than the severity of symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-77054052020-12-01 Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms Dawoud, Mohammed Mahmoud Dawoud, Tamer Mahmoud Ali, Noha Yousef Amin Nagy, Hanan Ahmad Egypt J Radiol Nucl Med Research BACKGROUND: After the spread of COVID-19 pneumonia, chest CT examination was used as a substantial non-invasive complement to RT-PCR for diagnosing and as a rapid screening tool when RT-PCR results are unavailable. Our study aimed at the analysis of the lung abnormalities detected by chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia according to the severity and duration of symptoms. RESULTS: In the early phase (n = 60), 32 patients had negative CT findings and 28 patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 2.13. In the intermediate phase (n = 116), 4 patients had negative CT findings and 112 patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 16.08. In the late phase (n = 36), all patients had positive findings with a mean total lung severity score of 17.83. CT lung abnormalities were progressed on follow-up CT studies. We found a high total lung severity score in many patients with mild symptoms with a mean of 14.77 and a low total lung severity score in many patients with moderate to severe symptoms with a mean of 9.14. CONCLUSION: Chest CT should be used as a routine examination for diagnosing COVID-19 pneumonia and follow-up of disease advance. The progression of lung abnormalities was related to the duration more than the severity of symptoms. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-12-01 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7705405/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43055-020-00359-z Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
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title_full Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
title_fullStr Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
title_full_unstemmed Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
title_short Chest CT in COVID-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
title_sort chest ct in covid-19 pneumonia: a correlation of lung abnormalities with duration and severity of symptoms
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7705405/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s43055-020-00359-z
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