Diagnostic and Prognostic Value of Chest Radiographs for COVID-19 at Presentation.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Pulmonary opacities in COVID-19 increase throughout the illness and peak after ten days. The radiological literature mainly focuses on CT findings. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic and prognostic value of chest radiographs (CXR) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at presentation.

Methods

We retrospectively identified consecutive reverse transcription polymerase reaction-confirmed COVID-19 patients (n = 104, 75% men) and patients (n = 75, 51% men) with repeated negative severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) tests. Two radiologists blindly and independently reviewed the CXRs, documented findings, assigned radiographic assessment of lung edema (RALE) scores, and predicted the patients' COVID-19 status. We calculated

SUBMITTER: Kerpel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7514404 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature