Visual lung damage CT score at hospital admission of COVID-19 patients and 30-day mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Chest CT has been widely used to screen and to evaluate the severity of COVID-19 disease in the early stages of infection without severe acute respiratory syndrome, but no prospective data are available to study the relationship between extent of lung damage and short-term mortality. The objective was to evaluate association between standardized simple visual lung damage CT score (vldCTs) at admission, which does not require any software, and 30-day mortality.

Methods

In a single-center prospective cohort of COVID-19 patients included during 4 weeks, the presence and extent of ground glass opacities(GGO), consolidation opacities, or both of them were visually assessed in each of the 5 lung lobes (score from 0 to 4 per lobe depending on the percentage and out of 20

SUBMITTER: Charpentier E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8083100 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature