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Lung CT Segmentation to Identify Consolidations and Ground Glass Areas for Quantitative Assesment of SARS-CoV Pneumonia
Published on: December 19, 2020
Severe organising pneumonia following COVID-19
István Vadász1,2,3,4, Faeq Husain-Syed5, Peter Dorfmüller2,3,6
1Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Giessen, Hessen, Germany istvan.vadasz@innere.med.uni-giessen.de.
Abstract:
Various forms of diffuse parenchymal lung disease have been proposed as potential consequences of severe COVID‑19. We describe the clinical, radiological and histological findings of patients with COVID‑19-associated acute respiratory distress syndrome who later developed severe organising pneumonia including longitudinal follow-up. Our findings may have important implications for the therapeutic modalities in the late-phase of severe COVID‑19 and might partially explain why a subgroup of COVID‑19 patients benefits from systemic corticosteroids.
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