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Original Article

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Background: Coronaviruses are significant diseases in both humans and animals. The world has experienced a relentless spread of the 2019 new coronavirus (COVID-19), the aim of the study was to assess correlation of CT scaning severity Score with inflammatory markers and blood picture among patients with severe COVID-19. Subjects and methods: 50 patients with severe COVID-19 were included in this study. These Patients were isolated and hospitalized in isolation units of Al–Hussin & Bab-Elshaaria university Hospitals, from June 2021 to May, 2022. They were diagnosed by positive RT-PCR COVID test. Result: The mean HRCT score of all studied patients was 13.1 ± 5.9 with minimum score of 1 and maximum score of 23. As regard NLR (%), the mean NLR of all studied patients was 10.3 ± 8.6 with minimum NLR of 2.07 and maximum neutrophil of 44.6. As regard ESR, the mean ESR of all studied patients was 66.4 ± 29.5 with minimum ESR of 12 and maximum ESR of 160. As regard D-Dimer, the mean D-Dimer of all studied patients was 0.7 ± 0.6 with minimum D-Dimer of 0.14 and maximum D-Dimer of 2.8. Highly statistical significant (p-value < 0.001) positive correlation (r = 0.51) between HRCT score and neutrophil %. Statistically significant (p-value = 0.004) Negative correlation (r = - 0.4) between HRCT score and Lymph %. Conclusion: Most common Respiratory symptom is cough followed by dyspnea. Most common non-respiratory symptom is fever followed by bony ache. Incidence of diarrhea in our COVID patients may be due to abusing of antibiotics and vitamins. Most common finding in CT pattern in COVID patients was bilateral peripheral GGO. Consolidation is not a common finding in COVID patients but sometimes present with GGO.

Keywords

CT scaning; severity Score; inflammatory markers; COVID-19

Subject Area

Chest

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