ArticleSA journal of radiology2022
Chest radiography evaluation in patients admitted with confirmed COVID-19 infection, in a resource limited South African isolation hospital.
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- The impact of technical factors on the chest radiographic findings in COVID-19 pneumonia.Journal of the colleges of medicine of South Africa · 2026Article
- Assessing chest radiographic quality and the influence of COVID-19 pathology: the Australian experience.Journal of medical radiation sciences · 2025Article
- Clinical characteristics and variables associated with COVID-19 morbidity and mortality in Luanda, Angola, in the first year of the pandemic.African health sciences · 2023Article
- Chest X-ray severity score Brixia: From marker of early COVID-19 infection to predictor of worse outcome in internal medicine wards.European journal of clinical investigation · 2023Article
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- Brixia and qSOFA Scores, Coagulation Factors and Blood Values in Spring versus Autumn 2021 Infection in Pregnant Critical COVID-19 Patients: A Preliminary Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A study of the chest imaging findings of adult patients with COVID-19 on admission to a tertiary hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa.Southern African journal of infectious diseases · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the subsequent global outbreak (coronavirus disease 2019 [COVID-19]) was declared a public health emergency in January 2020. Recent radiologic literature regarding COVID-19 has primarily focused on Computed Tomography (CT) chest findings, with chest radiography lacking in comparison.
objectivesTo describe the demographic profile of adult patients with COVID-19 pneumonia requiring hospital admission. To describe and quantify the imaging spectrum on chest radiography using a severity index, and to correlate the severity of disease with prognosis.
methodRetrospective review of chest radiographs and laboratory records in patients admitted to a South African tertiary hospital with confirmed COVID-19 infection. The chest X-rays were systematically reviewed for several radiographic features, which were then quantified using the
resultsA total of 175 patients (mean age: 53.34 years) admitted with COVID-19 were included. Ground glass opacification (98.9%), consolidation (86.3%), and pleural effusion (29.1%) was commonly found. Involvement of bilateral lung fields (96.6%) with no zonal predominance (61.7%), was most prevalent. Correlation between the
conclusionIn this study population, ground glass opacification, consolidation, and pleural effusions, with bilateral lung involvement and no zonal predominance were the most prevalent findings in proven COVID-19 infection. Quantification using the
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