Radiologic Findings of Patients with Covid-19-A Systematic Review Study
نویسندگان
1 Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Modares Hospital, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran
2 Graduate of nursing, School of nursing and medical emergency, Researcher, Alborz University of Medical ‎Sciences, Tehran, Iran
3 Master of Industrial Engineering-Management and Productivity, Health Systems Researcher, Firoozgar Hospital Clinical Development and Research Center
4 Bachelor of Nursing, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Master of Nursing in Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Iran
5 Anesthesiologist, Critical Care flow ship, assistance Professor of Anesthesiology and critical care medicine department, Arak university of medical sciences, Arak, Iran
6 Bachelor of Emergency Medicine, Iranshahr University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Emergency. Force, Tehran, Iran
7 Anesthesiologist, Department of Anesthesiology, Modares Hospital, Saveh University of Medical Sciences, Saveh, Iran
8 Anesthesia and pain Research Center, Department of Anatomy,Faculty of Medicine,Molecular and cell Biology Research center,Researcher, Iran university of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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10.22034/JCR.2021.290201.1116چکیده
< p>Background and Objective: Covid-19 is a newly emerged viral pandemic with a wide variety of systemic and local manifestations, radiography is a main diagnostic tool in patients with covid-19, the aim of the following systematic review study is to evaluate the radiologic findings of patients with covid-19 Methods: In this systematic review study, electronic search was conducted on MEDLINE, Google Scholar, Scopus, Web of knowledge and SID. The erelevant data were extracted. Results: 22 studies including 1108 patients with main age of 50.1 ± 16.2 were included. The ost common finding was ground glass opacification (31.2%) following by consolidation (28.4%) Right lobe involvement was much higher prevalent than left lobe (29% vs 12%) and lower lobe was much higher than upper lobes (33% vs 14%). Conclusion: Chest radiography is a high valuable tool in viral infection detection and according to high prevalence of radiological manifestations, it can be used effectively to encounter this disease.
