Presentation of pulmonary infection on CT in COVID-19: initial experience in Brazil.
Rodrigo Caruso ChateEduardo Kaiser Ururahy Nunes FonsecaRodrigo Bastos Duarte PassosGustavo Borges da Silva TelesHamilton ShojiGilberto SzarfPublished in: Jornal brasileiro de pneumologia : publicacao oficial da Sociedade Brasileira de Pneumologia e Tisilogia (2020)
The disease caused by the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), designated COVID-19, emerged in late 2019 in China, in the city of Wuhan (Hubei province), and showed exponential growth in that country. It subsequently spread to all continents, and infection with SARS-CoV-2 is now classified as a pandemic. Given the magnitude achieved, scientific interest in COVID-19 has also grown in the international literature, including its manifestations on imaging studies, particularly on CT. To date, no case series have been published in Brazil. Therefore, our objective was to describe the CT findings in an initial series of 12 patients.
Keyphrases
- sars cov
- image quality
- coronavirus disease
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- dual energy
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- end stage renal disease
- chronic kidney disease
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- positron emission tomography
- systematic review
- high resolution
- pulmonary hypertension
- magnetic resonance imaging
- south africa
- prognostic factors
- magnetic resonance
- mass spectrometry
- case control