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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
Some inflammatory markers and chest computerized tomography in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome
Aydın Akyüz1, Tuğba İlkem Kurtoğlu Özçağlayan2, Gülcan Gücer Şahin2
1Namık Kemal University, Faculty of Medicine, Cardiology Department - Tekirdağ, Turkey.
Objective:
We retrospectively assessed whether there was a relationship between lung complications and some easily accessible markers to predict the presence of pulmonary consolidation in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
Methods:
According to the polymerase chain reaction and chest computerized tomography results, the study was categorized into three groups. Group 1 (n=87) included the patients with polymerase chain reaction (+), group 2 (n=55) included the patients with polymerase chain reaction (-) and chest computerized tomography (+), and group 3 (n=77) included the patients with polymerase chain reaction (-) and chest computerized tomography (-), respectively.
Results:
High-sensitivity C-reactive protein and increased age were associated with higher computerized tomography (CT) scores.
Conclusion:
Increased age and C-reactive protein (CRP) may suggest pulmonary infiltration on chest CT in patients with COVID-19.
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