Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) : chest CT characteristics benefit to early disease recognition and patient classification-a single center experience

2020 Annals of Translational Medicine. All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND: The current outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), epi-centered in Wuhan, Hubei Province of the China, has become a global health emergency. Several studies from China have recently provided the evidence of epidemiological, clinical, laboratory, and outcomes of COVID-19 patients. Investigation on the role of chest CT in patient screening and management course in a large cohort remains paucity.

METHODS: This was a retrospective observational study based on the data collected between January 19 and 2020 to February 15, 2020. A clinic workflow using chest CT and RT-PCR assay to screen suspected patient was reviewed. Clinical data were evaluated and patients were classified to mild, common, severe and critical group. Chest CT characteristics of each patient were evaluated and a CT scoring system was applied to grade the lung involvement.

RESULTS: Of 98 enrolled patients, 1, 29, 51 and 17 were clinically classified into mild, common, severe and critical group, respectively. Eighty-three patients (84.7%) demonstrated ground-glass opacity (GGO), 76 patients (77.5%) demonstrated consolidation and 18 patients (18.4%) demonstrated crazy-paving pattern on chest CT. Based on the CT scoring, 2, 35, 55 and 6 patients were categorized to grade 0, grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3, respectively, which significantly consistent with clinical classification (kappa =0.638, P﹤0.05). Twenty-nine patients admitted from fever clinic, with an average interval of 1.2 days (range, 0-4 days) between CT examination and onset of symptom. Three of these patients had negative initial RT-PCR result while abnormalities displayed on the initial chest CT.

CONCLUSIONS: Peripheral lung distributed GGO and consolidation, without subpleural sparing, are the most common manifestations on chest CT of COVID-19. Abnormalities on chest CT can occur in an early stage of COVID-19, even when RT-PCR assay negative, which may help to early recognition and rapid diagnosis of this disease.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:8

Enthalten in:

Annals of translational medicine - 8(2020), 11 vom: 04. Juni, Seite 679

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Zhou, Hua [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Kaijin [VerfasserIn]
Shen, Yihong [VerfasserIn]
Fang, Qiang [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Sheng, Jifang [VerfasserIn]
Zhao, Feng [VerfasserIn]
Lou, Haiyan [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Computed tomography
Coronavirus
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Ground-glass opacity (GGO)
Journal Article
Pneumonia

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Date Revised 30.08.2022

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/atm-20-2119a

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NLM311950752