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Abdominal pelvic CT findings compared between COVID-19 positive and COVID-19 negative patients in the emergency department setting
- Source :
- Abdominal Radiology (New York), Abdominal Radiology
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- Springer US, 2020.
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Abstract
- Purpose Manifestations of COVID-19 are primarily respiratory based, however, gastrointestinal symptoms are now recognized as an important component of the disease. The purpose of this study is to evaluate differences in abdominal pelvic CT findings in the emergency department by COVID-19 test result. Methods This retrospective study identified patients tested by PCR for COVID-19 infection who underwent abdominal pelvic CT scan in the ED across an academic health system from March 15 to April 15, 2020. Radiology reports were reviewed for the presence of ground glass opacity in the lungs and acute abdominal pathology. A subset of patients with acute abdominal pathology were identified with inflammatory pathology in organs with high ACE2 receptor expression including bowel, pancreas, urinary bladder, and kidney. CT findings for COVID positive versus negative patients were compared with Chi-square test. Results 597 patients tested by PCR for COVID-19 infection underwent abdominal pelvic CT scan, 44% were COVID-19 positive. COVID-19 positive patients demonstrated significantly more ground glass opacity at the lung bases, 65.1%, (222/341) versus 12.4% (33/266), p
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Receptor expression
Urology
Hollow Organ GI
Ground-glass opacity
Gastrointestinal symptoms
Internal medicine
medicine
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Computed tomography
Retrospective Studies
Urinary bladder
Lung
Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
business.industry
SARS-CoV-2
Gastroenterology
COVID-19
Retrospective cohort study
Emergency department
Hepatology
medicine.anatomical_structure
Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Abdominal pelvic CT
Radiology
medicine.symptom
Pancreas
business
Emergency Service, Hospital
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
ACE2 receptor
Emergency radiology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23660058 and 2366004X
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Abdominal Radiology (New York)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....5782bab0b90f5213293bb6e3b173cc02