The Clinical and Chest CT Features Associated With Severe and Critical COVID-19 Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical and computed tomography (CT) features associated with severe and critical coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia.

Materials and methods

Eighty-three patients with COVID-19 pneumonia including 25 severe/critical cases and 58 ordinary cases were enrolled. The chest CT images and clinical data of them were reviewed and compared. The risk factors associated with disease severity were analyzed.

Results

Compared with the ordinary patients, the severe/critical patients had older ages, higher incidence of comorbidities, cough, expectoration, chest pain, and dyspnea. The incidences of consolidation, linear opacities, crazy-paving pattern, and bronchial wall thickening in severe/critical patients were signif

SUBMITTER: Li K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7147273 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature