Open AccessA new imaging sign in COVID-19 pneumonia: vascular changes and their correlation with clinical severity of the disease
Author(s) -
Deniz Esin Tekcan Şanlı,
Düzgün Yıldırım
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
diagnostic and interventional radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.754
H-Index - 43
eISSN - 1305-3612
pISSN - 1305-3825
DOI - 10.5152/dir.2020.20346
Subject(s) - medicine , covid-19 , pneumonia , disease , sign (mathematics) , coronavirus infections , severity of illness , intensive care medicine , radiology , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , mathematical analysis , mathematics , outbreak
It has come to our attention that specific vascular changes (VCs) appear more frequently in chest computed tomography (CT) of patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). In this study, we aimed to investigate if these specific VCs in chest CT correlate with clinical severity of the disease.