Open AccessTailoring steroids in the treatment of COVID-19 pneumonia assisted by CT scans: three case reports
Author(s) -
Ying Su,
Yi Han,
Jie Liu,
Yue Qiu,
Qian Tan,
Zhen Zhou,
Yao Yu,
Jun Chen,
Maryellen L. Giger,
Fleming Lure,
Zhe Luo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of x-ray science and technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.357
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1095-9114
pISSN - 0895-3996
DOI - 10.3233/xst-200710
Subject(s) - covid-19 , medicine , pneumonia , computed tomography , radiology , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , outbreak
In this article, we analyze and report cases of three patients who were admitted to Renmin Hospital, Wuhan University, China, for treating COVID-19 pneumonia in February 2020 and were unresponsive to initial treatment of steroids. They were then received titrated steroids treatment based on the assessment of computed tomography (CT) images augmented and analyzed with the artificial intelligence (AI) tool and output. Three patients were finally recovered and discharged. The result indicated that sufficient steroids may be effective in treating the COVID-19 patients after frequent evaluation and timely adjustment according to the disease severity assessed based on the quantitative analysis of the images of serial CT scans.