IMAGING FEATURES AND THE CORRELATION OF CT AND CXR SEVERITY SCORES OF COVID-19 PULMONARY INFECTION WITH SOME CLINICAL INDEX

Nguyễn Văn Thắng1,, Hoàng Văn Hưng1, Phạm Thị Thu Thủy1, Trần Văn Việt1
1 Haiduong Medical Technical University

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Purpose: Describes imaging features and determine the correlation of degree of lung damage on CT and CXR with some clinical index of COVID-19 patients. Object and Method: Descriptive study in 370 COVID-19 patients who were addmitted to Hai Duong Medical Technical University Hospital for isolation and/or treatment from 28th of January to 28th of March 2021. Results: The CT and CXR score of the severe patients were significantly higher than those of the ordinary patients (p < 0,05). For ROC analysis, the area under the ROC curve (AUC) of CT score was 0.837 (95% confidence interval,; P < 0.05) for the ordinary and severe patients discrimination. When the cutoff value of CT score was 7, the percentage of severe group was 8,02 higher than the ordinary group.  The ≥ 40 ages patients had CT scores ≥7 were 6 times higher than < 40 patients.

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