Preliminary investigation of relationship between clinical indicators and CT manifestation patterns of COVID-19 pneumonia improvement

2020 Journal of Thoracic Disease. All rights reserved..

BACKGROUND: To retrospectively evaluate several clinical indicators related to the improvement of COVID-19 pneumonia on CT.

METHODS: A total of 62 patients with COVID-19 pneumonia were included. The CT scores based on lesion patterns and distributions in serial CT were investigated. The improvement and deterioration of pneumonia was assessed based on the changes of CT scores. Grouped by using the temperature, serum lymphocytes and high sensitivity CRP (hs-CRP) on admission respectively, the CT scores on admission, at peak time and at discharge were evaluated. Correlation analysis was carried out between the time to onset of pneumonia resolution on CT images and the recovery time of temperature, negative conversion of viral nucleic acid, serum lymphocytes and hs-CRP.

RESULTS: The CT scores of the fever group and lymphopenia group were significantly higher than those of normal group on admission, at peak time and at discharge; and the CT scores of normal hs-CRP group were significantly lower than those of the elevated hs-CRP group at peak time and at discharge (P all<0.05). The time to onset of pneumonia resolution on CT image was moderately correlated with negative conversion duration of viral nucleic acid (r =0.501, P<0.05) and the recovery time of hs-CPR (r =0.496, P<0.05).

CONCLUSIONS: COVID-19 pneumonia patients with no fever, normal lymphocytes and hs-CRP had mild lesions on admission, and presented with more absorption and fewer pulmonary lesions on discharge. The negative conversion duration of viral nucleic acid and the recovery time of hs-CPR may be the indicator of the pneumonia resolution.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:12

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Journal of thoracic disease - 12(2020), 10 vom: 01. Okt., Seite 5896-5905

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Shi, Nannan [VerfasserIn]
Song, Fengxiang [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Fengjun [VerfasserIn]
Song, Pengrui [VerfasserIn]
Lu, Yang [VerfasserIn]
Hou, Qinguo [VerfasserIn]
Hua, Xinyan [VerfasserIn]
Ling, Yun [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Jiulong [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Chao [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Lei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Zhiyong [VerfasserIn]
Shan, Fei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qi [VerfasserIn]
Shi, Yuxin [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Computed tomography
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
Journal Article
Pneumonia improvement

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Date Revised 18.04.2022

published: Print

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.21037/jtd-20-1420

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NLM317765752