COVID-19 Research Paper Volume 12, Issue 9 pp 7652—7659

Typical radiological progression and clinical features of patients with coronavirus disease 2019

Min Wang1, *, , Linghong Guo1, *, , Qi Chen1, , Guojin Xia1, , Bo Wang1, ,

  • 1 Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang University, Nanchang 330006, Jiangxi Province, China
* Equal contribution

Received: March 31, 2020       Accepted: April 11, 2020       Published: May 2, 2020      

https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.103170
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Copyright © 2020 Wang et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

We aimed to describe typical radiological features and progression of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients. We reviewed the chest CT scans, laboratory findings, and clinical records of 66 COVID-19 patients who were admitted to affiliated hospitals of Nanchang university, Nanchang, China, from Jan 21 to Feb 2, 2020. CT was used to evaluate the radiological characteristics of COVID-19 patients. Only 4 patients (4/66, 6%) claimed their exposure to COVID-19 pneumonia patients. The major symptoms were fever (60/66, 91%) and cough (37/66, 56%). The predominant features of lesion were scattered (43/66, 65%), bilateral (50/66, 76%), ground-glass opacity (64/66, 97%), and air bronchogram sign (47/66, 71%). Forty-eight patients (48/66, 73%) had more than two lobes involved. Right lower lobe (58/66, 88%) and left lower lobe (49/66, 74%) were most likely invaded. Twelve patients (12/66, 18%) had at least one comorbid condition. Pleural traction (29/66, 44%), crazy paving (15/66, 23%), interlobular septal thickening (11/66, 17%), and consolidation (7/66, 11%) were also observed. The typical radiology features of COVID-19 patients are scattered ground-glass opacity in the bilateral lobes. Fever and cough are the major symptoms. Evaluating chest CT, clinical symptoms, and laboratory results could facilitate the early diagnosis of COVID-19, and judge disease progression.

Abbreviations

COVID-19: Coronavirus disease 2019; WHO: World health organization; SARS-Cov-2: severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; 2019-nCoV: 2019 novel coronavirus; MERS-CoV: Middle east respiratory syndrome coronavirus; SARS-CoV: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.