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ArticleRadiology research and practice2022

Chest CT Scan Features to Predict COVID-19 Patients' Outcome and Survival.

Mohammad-Mehdi Mehrabi Nejad, Aminreza Abkhoo, Faeze Salahshour, Mohammadreza Salehi, Masoumeh Gity, Hamidreza Komaki, Shahriar Kolahi

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  2. [Correlation between comorbidities and thoracic CT manifestations of COVID-19 pneumonia].Medizinische Klinik, Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin · 2024
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Mohammad-Mehdi Mehrabi NejadDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2452-0495
Aminreza AbkhooDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7524-3512
Faeze SalahshourDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0342-0006
Mohammadreza SalehiDepartment of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicines, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5538-7586
Masoumeh GityDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3056-4080
Hamidreza KomakiBrain Engineering Research Center, Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1830-9500
Shahriar KolahiDepartment of Radiology, School of Medicine, Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Imam Khomeini Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7490-1229

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Background: Providing efficient care for infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients requires an accurate and accessible tool to medically optimize medical resource allocation to high-risk patients. Purpose: To assess the predictive value of on-admission chest CT characteristics to estimate COVID-19 patients' outcome and survival time. Materials and Methods: Using a case-control design, we included all laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 patients who were deceased, from June to September 2020, in a tertiary-referral-collegiate hospital and had on-admission chest CT as the case group. The patients who did not die and were equivalent in terms of demographics and other clinical features to cases were considered as the control (survivors) group. The equivalency evaluation was performed by a fellowship-trained radiologist and an expert radiologist. Pulmonary involvement (PI) was scored (0-25) using a semiquantitative scoring tool. The PI density index was calculated by dividing the total PI score by the number of involved lung lobes. All imaging parameters were compared between case and control group members. Survival time was recorded for the case group. All demographic, clinical, and imaging variables were included in the survival analyses. Results: After evaluating 384 cases, a total of 186 patients (93 in each group) were admitted to the studied setting, consisting of 126 (67.7%) male patients with a mean age of 60.4 ± 13.6 years. The PI score and PI density index in the case vs. the control group were on average 8.9 ± 4.5 vs. 10.7 ± 4.4 ( Conclusion: On-admission chest CT features, particularly PI score and PI density index, are potential great tools to predict the patient's clinical outcome.

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