Chest computed tomography in the diagnosis of COVID-19 in patients with false negative RT-PCR

Autor: Eduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes Fonseca, Lorena Carneiro Ferreira, Bruna Melo Coelho Loureiro, Daniel Giunchetti Strabelli, Lucas de Pádua Gomes de Farias, Gabriel Abrantes de Queiroz, José Vitor Rassi Garcia, Renato de Freitas Teixeira, Victor Arcanjo Almeida Gama, Rodrigo Caruso Chate, Antonildes Nascimento Assunção Júnior, Márcio Valente Yamada Sawamura, Cesar Higa Nomura
Jazyk: English<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Einstein (São Paulo), Vol 19 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2317-6385
DOI: 10.31744/einstein_journal/2021ao6363
Popis: ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the role of chest computed tomography in patients with COVID-19 who presented initial negative result in reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Methods A single-center, retrospective study that evaluated 39 patients with negative RT-PCR for COVID-19, who underwent chest computed tomography and had a final clinical or serological diagnosis of COVID-19. The visual tomographic classification was evaluated according to the Consensus of the Radiological Society of North America and software developed with artificial intelligence for automatic detection of findings and chance estimation of COVID-19. Results In the visual tomographic analysis, only one of them (3%) presented computed tomography classified as negative, 69% were classified as typical and 28% as indeterminate. In the evaluation using the software, only four (about 10%) had a probability of COVID-19
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