Role of ct in evaluation of covid patients: our experience in a tertiary care covid hospital

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Nupur Basu., Kosturi Dakshit., Debashis Dakshit and Himadri Tanaya Panigrahi

Introduction: COVID-19 being a global pandemic of the era is emerging with highest transmission rates and fatality in most cases, disease affection and rapid progression remains as an unidentified factor leading to highest number of mortality. Through this study we will try to observe and conclude the disease manifestation with the help of imaging modality that is CT scan of randomly selected people.
Materials and method: The study was done in the department of Radio diagnosis, Medical College Kolkata .50 COVID positive patients were selected from EKO diagnostic centre who had been referred from the isolation ward and fever clinic of MEDICAL COLLEGE KOLKATA, for CT scan after their initial evaluations and RTPCR testing done. CT Machine of EKO diagnostic centre was used for the imaging.
Result: we observed highest percentage of people were of adult age group. Children were having a mild grade of disease, and males were affected more in number than females. Among CT features bilaterality, GGO, consolidation, crazy paving etc were the most common findings.
Conclusion: Though CT is not used as a first line diagnosing modality but its definitely a very important tool for assessing disease severity progression and also prognosis.

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DOI: 
http://dx.doi.org/10.24327/ijcar.2021.23620.4682
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