Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective

In December 2019, an unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology emerged called COVID-19. A vast number of people affected by this disease are asymptomatic and yet contagious with up to 79% of COVID-19 infections reportedly caused by undocumented infections. Surprisingly, these asymptoma...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ramanan, Rochita V, Joshi, Anagha R, Venkataramanan, Akash, Nambi, Senthur P, Badhe, Rashmi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
Materias:
Review Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814761
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_479_20
_version_ 1783670156098011136
author Ramanan, Rochita V
Joshi, Anagha R
Venkataramanan, Akash
Nambi, Senthur P
Badhe, Rashmi
author_facet Ramanan, Rochita V
Joshi, Anagha R
Venkataramanan, Akash
Nambi, Senthur P
Badhe, Rashmi
author_sort Ramanan, Rochita V
collection PubMed
description In December 2019, an unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology emerged called COVID-19. A vast number of people affected by this disease are asymptomatic and yet contagious with up to 79% of COVID-19 infections reportedly caused by undocumented infections. Surprisingly, these asymptomatic subjects are also known to quietly harbor pneumonia changes on CT scans. RT-PCR, the definitive test for COVID-19, maybe false negative in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia on CT. Incidental findings highly suspicious of COVID-19 pneumonia on CT chest of asymptomatic patients may increase as the community transmission of the virus rises and isolation restrictions are released. It is advisable to be aware of its appearances and the challenges associated with it.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-7996682
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2021
publisher Wolters Kluwer - Medknow
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-79966822021-04-01 Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective Ramanan, Rochita V Joshi, Anagha R Venkataramanan, Akash Nambi, Senthur P Badhe, Rashmi Indian J Radiol Imaging Review Article In December 2019, an unprecedented outbreak of pneumonia of unknown etiology emerged called COVID-19. A vast number of people affected by this disease are asymptomatic and yet contagious with up to 79% of COVID-19 infections reportedly caused by undocumented infections. Surprisingly, these asymptomatic subjects are also known to quietly harbor pneumonia changes on CT scans. RT-PCR, the definitive test for COVID-19, maybe false negative in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia on CT. Incidental findings highly suspicious of COVID-19 pneumonia on CT chest of asymptomatic patients may increase as the community transmission of the virus rises and isolation restrictions are released. It is advisable to be aware of its appearances and the challenges associated with it. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021-01 2021-01-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7996682/ /pubmed/33814761 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_479_20 Text en Copyright: © 2021 Indian Journal of Radiology and Imaging http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
spellingShingle Review Article
Ramanan, Rochita V
Joshi, Anagha R
Venkataramanan, Akash
Nambi, Senthur P
Badhe, Rashmi
Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title_full Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title_fullStr Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title_full_unstemmed Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title_short Incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic Covid-19 patients. A multicentre Indian perspective
title_sort incidental chest computed tomography findings in asymptomatic covid-19 patients. a multicentre indian perspective
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7996682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33814761
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijri.IJRI_479_20
work_keys_str_mv AT ramananrochitav incidentalchestcomputedtomographyfindingsinasymptomaticcovid19patientsamulticentreindianperspective
AT joshianaghar incidentalchestcomputedtomographyfindingsinasymptomaticcovid19patientsamulticentreindianperspective
AT venkataramananakash incidentalchestcomputedtomographyfindingsinasymptomaticcovid19patientsamulticentreindianperspective
AT nambisenthurp incidentalchestcomputedtomographyfindingsinasymptomaticcovid19patientsamulticentreindianperspective
AT badherashmi incidentalchestcomputedtomographyfindingsinasymptomaticcovid19patientsamulticentreindianperspective

Ejemplares similares