A study of the chest imaging findings of adult patients with COVID-19 on admission to a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Ashleigh A OrdJarrod ZampariniLiam LorentzAshesh RanchodHalvani MoodleyPublished in: Southern African journal of infectious diseases (2022)
COVID-19 in South Africa has similar chest imaging findings to those documented globally, with some differences between HIV-positive and HIV-negative or unknown patients. The authors corroborate relative sparing of the left upper lobe; however, further research is required to validate this currently unique local finding.
Keyphrases
- hiv positive
- south africa
- coronavirus disease
- men who have sex with men
- antiretroviral therapy
- sars cov
- end stage renal disease
- high resolution
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- hiv testing
- newly diagnosed
- human immunodeficiency virus
- emergency department
- hiv infected
- peritoneal dialysis
- hiv aids
- fluorescence imaging
- minimally invasive