Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36516593›Full record

ArticleJournal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association2023

Is a high chest CT severity score a risk factor for an increased incidence of long-term neuroimaging findings after COVID-19?

Ahmet Turan Kaya, Burcu Akman

Open access · greenAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Journal of stroke and cerebrovascular diseases : the official journal of National Stroke Association, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
1citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact, top 76% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 0 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Observational
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ahmet Turan KayaDepartment of Radiology, Amasya University, Faculty of Medicine, Amasya, Turkey. Electronic address: hmttrnky.62@gmail.com.
Burcu AkmanDepartment of Radiology, Amasya University, Faculty of Medicine, Amasya, Turkey.
Amasya Üniversitesi · TR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesWe aimed to determine the incidences of neuroimaging findings (NIF) and investigate the relationship between the course of pneumonia severity and neuroimaging findings. MATERIALS AND

methodsOur study was a retrospective analysis of 272 (>18 years) COVID-19 patients who were admitted between "March 11, 2021, and September 26, 2022". All patients underwent both chest CT and neuroimaging. The patient's chest CTs were evaluated for pneumonia severity using a severity score system (CT-SS). The incidence of NIF was calculated. NIF were categorized into two groups; neuroimaging positive (NIP) and neuroimaging negative (NIN). Consecutive CT-SS changes in positive and negative NIF patients were analyzed.

resultsThe median age of total patients was 71; IQR, 57-80. Of all patients, 56/272 (20.6%) were NIP. There was no significant relationship between NIP and mortality (p = 0.815) and ICU admission (p = 0.187). The incidences of NIF in our patients were as follows: Acute-subacute ischemic stroke: 47/272 (17.3%); Acute spontaneous intracranial hemorrhage: 13/272 (4.8%); Cerebral microhemorrhages: 10/272 (3.7%) and Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis: 3/25 (10.7%). Temporal change of CT-SSs, there was a statistically significant increase in the second and third CT-SSs compared to the first CT-SS in both patients with NIP and NIN.

conclusionOur results showed that since neurological damage can be seen in the late period and neurological damage may develop regardless of pneumonia severity.

Indexed as

COVID-19HumansIncidenceNeuroimagingRetrospective StudiesRisk FactorsSARS-CoV-2Tomography, X-Ray ComputedBrain CTBrain MRICOVID-19CT severity scoreNeuroimagingStroke

Identifiers

PMID36516593
PMCPMC9708621
OpenAlexW4310625288

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.