CLINICAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CHEST X-RAY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY FINDINGS IN DIFFERENT CLINICAL SEVERITY GRADING OF COVID-19 PATIENTS
| Autor: | Sailesh Gurung, Shital Adhikari, Madhur Dev Bhattarai, Basanta Gauli, Deepak Adhikari, Bigyan Poudel, Niraj Puri, Pratik Wagley, Sunil Patel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Chitwan Medical College. 11:46-51 |
| ISSN: | 2091-2889 2091-2412 |
| Popis: | Background: Clinical assessment, chest X-ray (CXR) and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) are used in the Corona virus disease-19 (COVID-19) management. The aim of the study was to determine the clinical characteristics and CXR and HRCT findings in COVID-19 patients with different clinical severity. Methods: This was a hospital-based cross-sectional study conducted at Chitwan Medical College, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine from September to December 2020. Data from sixty adult patients with moderate (non-severe), severe, and critical COVID 19 disease having both CXR and HRCT were collected and were analyzed using SPSS version 16. Results: Median age of patients in our hospital-based study was 59.9 years and 76.7% were male, 30% had diabetes, and 35% had hypertension. Respiratory rate (p=0.001) and shortness of breath (p= 0.011) significantly increased and oxygen saturation (SpO2) (p0.05). Conclusions: There was no difference in CXR and HRCT findings across moderate, severe and critical clinical severities of COVID-19; future study performing CXR whenever HRCT is done for any indication may similarly indicate the situation in mild COVID-19 disease. |
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