Review of chest CT manifestations of COVID-19 infection

Maria El Homsi; Michael Chung; Adam Bernheim; Adam Jacobi; Michael J King; Sara Lewis; Bachir Taouli

doi:10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100239

Review of chest CT manifestations of COVID-19 infection

Eur J Radiol Open. 2020 Jun 7:7:100239. doi: 10.1016/j.ejro.2020.100239. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Maria El Homsi¹, Michael Chung¹, Adam Bernheim¹, Adam Jacobi¹, Michael J King¹, Sara Lewis^{1

2}, Bachir Taouli^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Diagnostic, Molecular and Interventional Radiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.
² BioMedical Engineering and Imaging Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA.

Abstract

Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) is a viral pandemic that started in China and has rapidly expanded worldwide. Typical clinical manifestations include fever, cough and dyspnea after an incubation period of 2-14 days. The diagnosis is based on RT-PCR test through a nasopharyngeal swab. Because of the pulmonary tropism of the virus, pneumonia is often encountered in symptomatic patients. Here, we review the pertinent clinical findings and the current published data describing chest CT findings in COVID-19 pneumonia, the diagnostic performance of CT for diagnosis, including differential diagnosis, as well the evolving role of imaging in this disease.

Keywords: ARDS, acute respiratory distress syndrome; CAP, community-acquired pneumonia; COVID-19; COVID-19, coronavirus disease 2019; CRP, C-Reactive Protein; CT chest; Coronavirus; GGO, ground-glass opacity; MERS, Middle East respiratory syndrome; PUI, patient under investigation; RT-PCR; RT-PCR, reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction; SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome; SARSCoV-2, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2.