Title of article :
chest ct findings in patients with covid-19 infection: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Author/Authors :
nourmohammadi, jalal mashhad university of medical sciences - shahid hasheminejad medical research center - pediatrics department, mashhad, iran , jafari, mehrshad , tehran, iran , abbaszadeh, rana islamic azad university, urmia, iran , rahimi ghasabeh, saeid iranian red crescent society hospital, tehran, iran , amani, hadis rafsanjan university of medical sciences - faculty of basic sciences - department of cellular and molecular biology, rafsanjan, iran , kalali sani, ali gonabad university of medical sciences - critical care department, gonabad, iran
Abstract :
in this work, we evaluated computed tomography (ct) results of the chest in patients with covid-19 pneumonia. preliminary articles were searched in the scientific databases pubmed, medline, embase, ebsco between 2019 to 2021. fixed-effect model for meta-analysis using the inverse-variance method calculates effect size with 95% confidence interval (ci). data analysis was performed using stata software version 16. overall effect size of ground glass opacities (ggo) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (covid-19) was 2.30 (es, 95% ci 1.56, 3.3). ground-glass opacity was a typical finding in covid-19 pneumonia on ct; its incidence was about 80%. abnormal ct in patients with covid-19 was 2.69 (es, 95% ci 2.52, 2.87). groundglass opacity is the foremost typical ct scan result in coronavirus disease 2019, and lung involvement is more common in bilateral and lower lung areas.
Keywords :
covid , 19 , ground , glass opacity , chest ct , ct manifestations , consolidation
Journal title :
Eurasian Chemical Communications
Journal title :
Eurasian Chemical Communications
