2020
DOI: 10.5812/jkums.111407
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The Spectrum of Chest CT-Scans in the Hospitalized Patients with the Coronavirus Disease

Abstract: Background: Coronaviruses are a large family of RNA viruses, which range from the common cold virus to the causative agent of more severe diseases. Coronavirus was declared a pandemic in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. Iran has been an endemic zone for the spread of the coronavirus since the outset of this global epidemic and has remained among the countries largely affected by high rates of the disease. Objectives: The present study aimed to investigate the range of the chest computed tomography (CT) scan find… Show more

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“…Pulmonary embolism is a common finding in COVID-19, while this complication only rarely occurs in the settings of CCHF (20,21). Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may occur in the late stages of both infections, indicative of a poor prognosis (22).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Pulmonary embolism is a common finding in COVID-19, while this complication only rarely occurs in the settings of CCHF (20,21). Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) may occur in the late stages of both infections, indicative of a poor prognosis (22).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a diffuse interstitial lung disease of a kind of type, more common in idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, early pathological characteristics are mainly characterized by diffuse alveolar inflammation, alveolar structure disorder late is characterized by abnormal hyperplasia of fibroblasts and extracellular matrix accumulation and collagen content increases, eventually, lead to pulmonary fibrosis (1). The main clinical manifestations of this disease are respiratory disturbance accompanied by irritant dry cough, and there is usually a burst sound at the end of inspiration in the middle and lower part of both lungs (2,3). Due to the insidious onset of this disease, patients with symptoms usually have a disease history of 1-3 years, and most of them have the symptoms of decreased lung function (4).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%