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Sayato Fukui1, Akihiro Inui1, Takayuki Komatsu2
1Department of General Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, JPN.
Background:
In this study, we aimed to identify predictive factors for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients with complicated pneumonia and determine which COVID-19 patients should undergo computed tomography (CT) using classification and regression tree (CART) analysis.
Methods:
This retrospective cross-sectional survey was conducted at a university hospital. We recruited patients diagnosed with COVID-19 between January 1 and December 31, 2020. We extracted clinical information (e.g., vital signs, symptoms, laboratory results, and CT findings) from patient records. Factors potentially predicting COVID-19 pneumonia were analyzed using Student's t-test, the chi-square test, and a CART analysis model.
Results:
Among 221 patients (119 men (53.8%); mean age, 54.59±18.61 years), 160 (72.4%) had pneumonia. The CART analysis revealed that patients were at high risk of pneumonia if they had C-reactive protein (CRP) levels of >1.60 mg/dL (incidence of pneumonia: 95.7%); CRP levels of ≤1.60 mg/dL + age >35.5 years + lactate dehydrogenase (LDH)>225.5 IU/L (incidence of pneumonia: 95.5%); and CRP levels of ≤1.60 mg/dL + age >35.5 years + LDH≤225.5 IU/L + hemoglobin ≤14.65 g/dL (incidence of pneumonia: 69.6%). The area of the curve of the receiver operating characteristic of the model was 0.860 (95% CI: 0.804-0.915), indicating sufficient explanatory power.
Conclusions:
The present results are useful for deciding whether to perform CT in COVID-19 patients. High-risk patients such as those mentioned above should undergo CT.
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