التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Role of portable chest radiography in management of COVID-19: Experience of 422 patients from a tertiary care center in India. |
| المؤلفون: |
Goyal, Alka, Tiwari, Raghav, Bagarhatta, Meenu, Ashwini, B, Rathi, Bhavyansh, Bhandari, Sudhir |
| المصدر: |
Indian Journal of Radiology & Imaging; 2021Supplement, Vol. 31, p94-100, 7p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
ACADEMIC medical centers, CHEST X rays, COMPUTED tomography, STATISTICAL correlation, MEDICAL equipment, MEDICAL records, PLEURAL effusions, POLYMERASE chain reaction, VIRAL pneumonia, RETROSPECTIVE studies, REVERSE transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, ACQUISITION of data methodology, TERTIARY care, COVID-19 |
| مصطلحات جغرافية: |
INDIA |
| مستخلص: |
Objective: To analyze radiological changes in portable chest radiographs in coronavirus disease-19(COVID-19) patients to optimize the management of hospitalized patients. Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 638 portable radiographs of 422 hospitalized COVID-19 patients with RT-PCR confirmed COVID-19 infection. All the radiographs were reported in a structured format by two experienced radiologists. A severity score was assigned to every Chest Xray (CXR) and correlation was done with the CT scans whenever available. Results: Out of 422 baseline portable radiographs assessed, the ratio of male: female patients was 337:85 that is 79.8% were males and 20.14% were females.The mean age was 50.5 years and the range was 17–84 years.Of these 422 patients, 187 patients (44.3%) had abnormal baseline CXR. 161 out of 187 (86%) had either typical or indeterminate findings for COVID-19 pneumonia, rest 26 (13.9%) patients had CXR findings not consistent with COVID-19, like pleural effusion, hydropneumothorax, or lung cavity.Most commonly observed CXR findings in COVID 19 pneumonia were bilateral, multifocal air space opacities (consolidation and ground-glass opacities) predominantly involving lower zones and peripheral lung fields. X-ray identifiable lung changes of COVID-19 were mostly seen at 9-11 days after symptom onset. Conclusion: The presence of multifocal air-space opacities with bilateral, peripheral distribution on chest radiograph is highly suggestive of COVID-19 pneumonia in this pandemic setting.Portable chest radiography is a widely available and quicktool for estimating the evolution and assessing the severity of lung involvement of COVID-19 pneumonia in hospitalized symptomatic patients. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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Complementary Index |
